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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 …

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 …

Today, I have seen (and answered) this question on zfs. For me, the question made perfect sense and has been well-researched and well-written. Yet, it managed to earn two close votes where the close r …

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? …

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?

I have to admit that I rarely vote on questions. This is because I am lazy, of course, but also partly because I have difficulties aligning my mind with the concept of question votes. For me, a qu …

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 …

I am likely known for expressing minority's views here on meta, but as I feel there might be a constructive contribution from my digital-culture background here it goes nonetheless: The discussion seems …

This question's answer has a couple of comments of a rather suspicious nature which left me with the impression that the question's author is trying really hard to drive the discussion towards a certain …

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 …

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 …

The title says it all. p4 has been used to either tag a question regarding the perforce revision control system or, in one case, to indicate a hardware platform. As p4 was less widely used, apparently …

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. …

Looks crap. Please change it back. I have to say that given the complaints we had about the SF template over the past years, I am glad someone has taken on the work on some changes.

The simple answer is: because everyone with >= 300 reputation can create tags by just specifying them with her question: Simply enter a new tag with your question and it will be created. Somebod …