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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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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 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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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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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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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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IT Certification tags used in questions
I saw this over on Meta.SO: Should certification questions be closed? where the answer stated:
Questions that ask for clarification on or an answer to a specific
question from a certification ex …
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Sure, we like the IDEA of voting, but we are poor in our actions
where it was upvoted 77 times, with plenty of positive discussion, it is apparent that at least in concept the ServerFault community thinks voting is a valid activity worth our attention and time. …
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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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Questions to ask the SE staff regarding the future of ServerFault
OK, I've thought of one that would at least help me realize my dream that Question #5 might happen and it seems definitely doable:
So consider this either Question 12 or Question 5b:
Since there …
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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 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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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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Why is rudeness tolerated?
If you were looking for an actual answer to:
However they seem to get away with it. Is it because they have high
rep, or because they hang out with mods in the chat rooms?
First, you should ha …
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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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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? …