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I think the only way to do this properly is to keep moving towards growing the site's pool of good questions and good answers. You can tell someone "Come to Server Fault if you have an obscure network …

I have to agree with John Gardeniers. I think there's been a similar question before where I talked about how I think things should grow 'naturally'. I can only repeat that - you can't force a site …

When it comes to questions, I downvote ones that the asker doesn't have appear to have put a lot of thought in to asking them or into working things out for themselves. Also where it's like pulling te …

I think it's ok to edit a question to make it a better question (regardless of whether it is editing spelling that's too bad to be readable or editing content for clarity). Pedantically editing an o …

I think weeding the garden is important. If one of the goals of SF is to attract people here as a definitive place to ask and answer questions then those visitors aren't going to be impressed or by ol …

In my opinion, asking a "loaded" question simply so that you can reply to it yourself with a long screed about how awesome your own app is, makes you a spammer, pure and simple. Don't care if you're p …

It is natural that you give a bit of leeway to someone who has participated in the community and "earned it". It's also natural that this looks like a bad inconsistency to someone on the outside looki …

Created it and tagged a couple of questions to get it started. I'll let you tag the rest :) edit Quite a few questions mention it as an answer, so just doing a search for "checkinstall" might be a b …

I think there's a detailed discussion of this on meta.so, but a number of words are blocked from question titles, as they were linked to bad questions and generally poor titles …

What about this question? It's discussing worm infections on a LAN rather than viruses but it's all malware at the end of the day. I've tried to edit my answer to the question to make a bit more broad …

I've always interpreted the requirement for professional sysadmins as referring to the job a person is doing and/or their ability to present issues here in a professional manner rather than membership …

To paraphrase a certain comment about Unix, Serverfault is friendly, it just expects certain standards from its friends. It's not that the site is elitest - questions from people new to systems admini …

It's a fine line to walk - there are plenty of sites around that allow "non professionals" to ask geeky questions of professionals but by the time I joined this site, about 4 years ago, a large part o …

We need good quality questions but who cares if there are noobish questions too, that is what search is for. That rather depends on what you define as "noobish" doesn't it. Questions should refle …

Looking at the question and the answers that were deleted from it, I'd suggest it was protected because it was acting as a magnet for low quality posts that were really just people asking the same sor …