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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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Editing an answer by adding significant new content?

I have seen a number of edits on the review screens that are adding a significant amount of new content, items which can and (imho) should be free standing answers to given questions in and of themsel …
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Should 'productive sysadmins without root' be listed as a canonical question?

Should Linux: productive sysadmins without root (securing intellectual property)? be listed as a canonical question?
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Duplicates with open bounties

I'm curious - should anything be done on questions about questions with active bounties that are duplicates? I'm thinking specifically of Optimal value for Nginx worker_connections as a dupe of our ca …
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Canonical nuke virus from orbit question?

I've been working on a blog post about dealing with virus infections for small businesses (most of my clients). It occurred to me that I should look at serverfault to see if I missed any details for …
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Commenting on down votes?

It seems like we have a lot of new folks on the main site now, and every once in awhile I like to answer the "why did I get a downvote???" or "you hurt my feelings" or "you are elitists" type comments …
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Discussion / off topic canonical?

There seem to have been a lot more closures lately for questions that are unreasonably scoped and / or solicit discussion. … Do we have a canonical answer to refer these questions to, especially the ones that solicit discussion? …
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Changing the site subtitle

A little behind on my meta reading.. Q&A for professional workplace system administration
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Can we do anything to change the dynamic of the site?

This might seem a bit naive however I've been wondering if a revision to the signup / anonymous question asking process might help. Effectively the same way a lot of organizations require users to hav …
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