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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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Have we given up on the review queue?
I'm guilty...I've given up. I simply don't frequent SF enough anymore due to the job requirements to be a daily contributor.
But I was actually pretty shocked to see the shape the review queue is in …
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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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What can we do to fix the "Reasonable management practices" close reason?
OK, so maybe this will end up being completely wrong and downvoted away, but here goes. Feel free to poke holes in it! :)
ServerFault exists to be a good Q&A site for sysadmins, but it also is a gre …
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Proposed close reason: Ask your vendor/sysadmin
My recommended edit:
Questioners must have required access to fix the problem. Questions must be posted by someone with access to diagnose and debug and to apply suggested fixes. Also, some quest …
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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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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
I still believe the consensus here: Inactive mods on SF - Or are they?
I see the same 2-3 moderators all day long on SF. Granted that's my timezone and perspective, but it's the only perspective I …
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Can I see the "Moderator election candidate statistics" for myself without running for moder...
I figured I'd ask here before making an Evan Carroll out of myself.
I really like the statistics found here:
http://elections.stackexchange.com/#serverfault
Short of nominating myself, is there a …
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Can the search window include other sites such as superuser.com?
So, I'm interested in this discussion and possibly feature-request.
Can the search window query additional results on sites other than ServerFault.com? …
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Should ServerFault loosen its tie and start allowing "Shopping" questions?
BEFORE YOU ANSWER OR VOTE, I know it's long, but if you read the whole thing, you'll see where I'm coming from on this. It's not just a "let us having shopping questions!" post.
With the highly like …
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Should this question have been / why was this question closed?
You state:
it really isn't a particularly subjective or opinion-based question
and yet then state:
I'm having a similar issue, and none of the provided answers are
proving particularly h …
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On the paucity of voting
I've made 682 votes so far this year, roughly about 4/day. However, I've trailed off considerably over the last 2 months, both in voting and in activity.
For reference, I asked a similar style quest …
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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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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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How do you sort unanswered questions with [tag] by newest first?
For me I use:
In the search dialog:
answers:0 [tag]
or my favorite that HopelessN00b helped me with:
answers:0 intags:mine
And THEN click the newest tab
This assumes by "unanswered" you li …
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Is this site becoming what it's aspiring to be?
This was meant to be a comment, but it is simply too long, so I'll pretty up the formatting as well, why not...:
...becoming what it's aspiring to be? -- what's it aspiring to be? Who dictates that? …