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It turns out the the recent question regarding the misuse of rm -rf in Ansible was actually just a hoax (English) in some kind of viral marketing effort. It become quite famous on various media and ga …

Undelete the question and edit it to explain the situation.

Last week, I spoke to a colleague who had some problems where he asked me for help but I didn't knew an immediate answer. I suggested to ask a question on ServerFault, but he denied, claiming this sit …

The second option is more useful. Sometimes "Replace the hardware" is the correct answer. To make it even more helpful, add information that lead you to test this angle.

You can change the vote for five minutes. After that, the vote can only be removed after the voted-upon question or answer has been edited. This is by design. If you accidentally voted, just click t …

I see nothing in the legal documents that would forbid creating a secondary account, but you would need to contact the SE staff for a definite answer to the legal part of this. If you do it, the mos …

My view: A bounty should not be an excuse to treat a question differently. If necessary, mods can remove the bounty (including a reimbursement of the rep spent), so when in doubt, flag for mod attenti …

From the way I understand the meaning of these examples, the answer is most likely "No, you shouldn't". We expect questions on SF to be about an actual, technical problem you face. Questions that am …

There is a lot of discussion about the quality of questions on SF; this is a topic that comes up regularly in meta. …

I strongly disagree with the goal and tone of your post. A user disagreed with your approach and he made civilized arguments and did not "run around and scream". Obviously, others agreed with him and …

In very short words: SF is a site for professional system administrators exclusively and we don't want non-professional questions. Low quality questions are by definition non-professional. This is a …

You should never, ever crosspost to another StackExchange site, but 3rd party sites are OK (in my opinion).

First of all: I love my RPi collection. I run nearly half a dozen of them. At home. For work: We (the majority of the active community on this site) absolutely insists on a professional approach to …

One very important requirement for questions on ServerFault: You need to be administrator on the system in question, in order to be able to fully follow possible answers. That rules you out, at least …

Yes, you are right, I've misinterpreted this, and your flag was correct.