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Why does laser printer maintainance not fall under the scope of SF?

Broken HP laser? We have to call an HP repair tech for that. I'd call that an engineering question, and a fairly interesting one at that, but not a system administration question. And "computer ha …
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Canonical Question for High Load Average on Linux?

I propose we convert this to a proper Canonical Linux Load Average question: How to understand the memory usage and load average in linux server Suggestions? Questions? Catcalls from the Peanut Gall …
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Editing an answer by adding significant new content?

I think we should encourage them to put in their own, but insofar as they're not changing the basic premise of the answer, more power to them. If they want to give up that rep, that's their loss.
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Cap on Question Review?

I noticed that I got cut off at 20 close vote reviews today. Not 20 closures, 20 reviews. Considering that there are still nearly 1000 in my personal close vote queue and our Mods are asking us to go …
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Canonical Question for High Load Average on Linux?

This morning yet another "Why is my load average so high?" question popped up in the Vote to close queue. I've seen this question asked 80 different ways since I joined a couple years ago, this must …
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Over-use of Off-Topic Closure

I'm getting more than a little tired of anything that can possibly be asked on some other site being marked as Off-Topic here. Since when is user account management off topic for SF? This one, for e …
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The [cent] tag needs to go

I'm not fly like @WesleyDavid, so no fancy WoW references. The [cent] tag looks like it's a typo and the only question under it got migrated to Unix & Linux already. I'm thinking it needs to get wha …
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Remove "Professional" close-reason

Without the "Professional Capacity" aspect to our mission, I fail to see a difference between ServerFault and SuperUser. SuperUser: Super User is a question and answer site for computer enthusiasts …
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Should subjective questions be subjected to closure?

The recent discussion around the WebServer Benchmarks question has me thinking. This question poses a generally useful query that doesn't have one true answer. … Update 6/19/2014 I'd like to reboot this discussion, especially in light of our recent discussions on recruiting and retaining more talent. …
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Serial close-voting?

As the alleged Serial Close-voter, I will state this: The user in question has a history of posting astonishingly lazy, zero-research questions and asking (and perhaps shading into expecting) us to d …
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