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Tag synonym suggestion: [windows-domain] -> [active-directory]

Taking a look at the newest 50 questions with the windows-domain tag, they are all about AD domains with the exception of this one, which is about Samba. While there surely would be cases where a qu …
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"Serverfault Apprenticeships"

we could point them at what had been written` isn't this usually referred to as Read The Fine Manual? A whole bunch of vendor-specific stuff has good documentation already. And basic computer sc …
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Restrict some formatting options for posting answers

John, although you apparently already gave up on the idea, I believe the visually very unappealing kind of problem is not solved by removing the ability to create headings, but simply by changing the …
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Over-use of Off-Topic Closure

Since most of the questions quoted by you are "fixed" now, I would conclude that the part of the community which is reading the Meta agrees with you on the problem of excessive use of OT-close-votes. …
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What are the reasons a question can/should get an upvote or downvote on Serverfault?

Is this site just for the "elite" and N00bs can just go their own way. "Elite" is called "professional" in these parts. Basically, it is a site where "regulars" (aka high-rep users) do the heav …
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What is our "competition" for ServerFault?

At least the Microsoft Technet / social forums and the VMware counterpart have a significant amount of vendor-specific topical overlap. Their unsurmountable advantage over ServerFault is the fact th …
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Request migrations for questions on other sites?

I stumbled upon an (admittedly old and) answered question on StackOverflow which I consider to have a better place here. Should and/or do we request migrations in such cases?
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Change description for database-related tags [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Where do SQL questions belong? What kind of database/DBA questions does the SF community want to keep? Now that http://dba.stackexchange.com is there, shouldn't we div …
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Asking for old-ish questions from SuperUser

After stumbling upon (and answering) two questions on SuperUser which would have a much happier life here (1,2), I have raised a moderator flag asking for the questions' migration to SF. The migratio …
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Binaries: where to host them?

After seeing this question exposing a particulary bad choice for a file hoster to place a PCAP dump on, I wondered what the current options are. As I see it, the hosting service needs to be easily a …
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Why "professional capacity"?

Are there historical posts (Blogs or Meta) documenting the reasoning or a discussion about why SF has been targeted at "professional" sysadmins? Who made this decision? With what rationale? …
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Binaries: where to host them?

To mention an option specifically suited for PCAP dump files, Cloudshark seems to be a sensible choice. It has been around for some time now (started in 2010), is constantly extending the services, do …
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What's wrong with ServerFault community?

On SF I often see behaviors against all stackexchange etiquette: most notably, downvotes without any comment. If it is a Stackexchange consensus that downvotes should come with a comment, I would …
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Changes in "Human Detection" algorithm?

It appears that the detection algorithm tends to kick in whenever the IP address changes mid-session. If your provider uses NAT and rotating public IP assignment (seen this a couple of times with some …
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Is this type of answer acceptable?

The generic stuff: They are his answers after all - my approach would be not to mess with them until really necessary or at least until I would be confident that he would not disagree with the edited …
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