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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Define "Shopping" Questions
I personally think there should be a stack exchange area for "shopping". It's nice to have a one stop shop (isn't that what SE's mission is?) for IT related questions.
At times I've had questions li …
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What is our "competition" for ServerFault?
Besides other SE sites? Technet forums, MS Social forums, Expert Sexchange, Petri, linuxquestions, Cisco forums, etc.
Oh...and Google.
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Where should telecom administration questions be asked? [duplicate]
There are a lot of network/systems admins that have to put on the telecom admin hat as well. Either using Cisco Call Manager, Asterisk, other VOIP/digital/analog PBXs, digital/analog systems, wireles …
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Retaliation for my posts here on meta?
I can answer at least one of them.
I downvoted this one (and none of your other ones, and don't think I ever saw those to be honest):
How to quickly and easily set up and maintain VPN's ? (Have Juni …
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contesting an off-topic designation
The first part of your question:
"Anyone know of some software for linux"
is likely the reason for the 2 "Shopping" close votes (product, service, or learning material recommendations) as it is …
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Question about making an address inside a VPN public temporarily
I'm not an expert on web services, but why not publish the URL online via a certain port or specific IP:80 and then setup firewall rules to only allow access from specific source IP addresses you are …
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Is there a need for the "10 minute wait period" on Serverfault?
I noticed this over on SO, and didn't even know this was the case there:
Why can't I accept an answer in the first 10 minutes after asking the question?
The answer (quoting from Jeff Atwood) was:
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Are we upvoting/downvoting questions for the right reasons?
MDMarra also points out in that discussion:
...we fully expect you to have put some effort into solving your
problem before you come here. …
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I'm challenging us to make the Christmas 2014 season be known as "killing them with kindness"
EDIT: IT'S OVER...hopefully it helped some...now to continue on down the road...
tl;dr? Just see the bold...
After reading both of these meta questions:
Why is the Server Fault community so unfrie …
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What should the community take away from panel-gate?
My biggest takeaway is that it will be business as usual here next week. Crap questions will happen, a few decent questions will surface that will get maybe 2 upvotes when 5 years ago it would get 20 …
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Will/Should Serverfault be dropping the "networking support" in the upcoming future?
There is a currently private beta site for Network Engineering here:
http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/52519/network-engineering
The beta is new, but seems to be garnering a decent following …
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Should we vote/close old Shopping questions?
I searched Meta hoping for a direct answer to this one, but so far I'm only finding semi-related Meta questions.
Here's the sequence that led me to this question.
I saw this question: https://server …
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Why are moderators/high rep users focused on narrowing the scope of SF?
"We need good quality questions but who cares if there are noobish
questions too"
A new user asking a valid, on-topic question with decent up front info shouldn't (and most often isn't) ridicul …
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What ever became of the meeting with SE staff about the "future of Serverfault"?
I was going to ask this is in chat but figured it was better served if the community-at-large got to see the results of the meeting, what was discussed, etc.
This is in regards to this Meta post: Que …
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Question about the Off-topic close reason vs migration close reasons
Looking at an example here: https://serverfault.com/questions/526087/how-do-i-direct-inbound-network-traffic-to-a-specific-internal-ip-based-on-the-r
The question I have is, I know voretaq's close rea …