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One topic I am seeing a lot of the election page, and in meta threads, and in the site in general, is the idea that moderators should be running around slamming close votes on every question that does …

I would say yes. Systems administrators can also use vagrant for testing our own environments. Say you want to test your puppet manifests against a known standard configuration - you could vagrant up …

I'm seeing SO MANY questions lately that should be KILLED ON THE SPOT that are simply being moved to SuperUser as a way to get rid of them. This should not be done. I don't know if people are scared …

Often the process of writing a question out forces you to think critically about your problem and break it down into its component pieces. During this process, the problem and its solution reveal the …

I disagree with this behaviour, but that's a discussion for another day. To clarify: Sever Fault is for professionals working with IT in a professional manner. …

Not on that alone. This might be obvious to a network administrator, but in a highly compartmentalised IT department, if you've spent your entire life dealing with a mainframe connected to dumb termin …

I'm seeing SO MANY questions like this: How to get my server viewable from the internet? From the FAQ: Server Fault is for system administrators and IT professionals, people who manage or maintai …

As a user who only came onboard with Server Fault (haven't done any programming in years), I can't help but feel left a little bit cold when it comes to meta and the blog. You see, they're hosted on …

Well, it's January, which is the traditional time to hold a moderator election on Server Fault. My question is; do you think we need one? I'd like input from everyone - new users, regular users, high …

So, looks like Ask Ubuntu have a similar problem to what we have - they often have a poor quality questions. I like what their moderator has done up as a proof of concept; a wizard that helps you ask …

From the times when I am active, I don't think we need any more moderators at the moment. The average flag handling time is quite adequate. However, I know that when I am on (GMT+11) is basically the …

I disagree with this, because this is way too broad, and it's unhelpful, and it will encourage people to hit people on the head with this question instead of, you know, helping them. There is a time …

Are you familar with Unicode? Throw a few U+200B's onto the end of your answer. Voila, instant 1-character edit.

What a crap tag - operating-system Agreed? If so, let's clean it up over the next few days so we can send it to war on the front line against a battalion of heavilly armed enemy soliders so that it g …

What I would really enjoy seeing is a lack of questions that require snarkiness. From my experience in what I've seen others go through, and what I've experienced with questions I've answered myself, …