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Where did all the admins on Server Fault go?
I made this thread to spew some discussion around why there are so few responses to questions lately, not about how many hits the site gets from Google. …
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Downvoting really old questions?
I don't see any reason why you shouldnt, if the answer is incorrect. People read "really old questions" when searching the site, either directly or via google.
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Would like to understand why was my question closed
No idea why this was closed.. I've voted to reopen it.
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Company Name In Username
I actually think this is much better than the ones who try to hide it.
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Why does laser printer maintainance not fall under the scope of SF?
We try not to generalize, but the subject is just too wide. There are a plethora of manufacturers and models, and every model differentiates.
Some of them requires you replace almost 90% of the print …
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Userbase has gone up, but participation in the election has gone down?
From https://serverfault.com/election:
2011: 3,834 voters were eligible, 566 visited the election, and 310 voted (8% of eligible users voted)
2012: 6,350 voters were eligible, 1,361 visited the site …
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Tag merge request for plesk
Please consider merging all the plesk tags into one. I don't think we need a separate tag for every single Plesk version released.
If possible; block future plesk tag creation and point users against …
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A better /about Question and Answer
How about this one?
Industry Standards for Network Infrastructure Labeling
It's honestly the only good question with good answers that I could find that wasn't subjective, too broad or shopping.
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On which stackexchange site should this be posted?
ServerFault or unix.SE should be a perfect fit for this question. I have no idea why someone voted to close it.
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Who chooses the questions for review audit? I failed a highly debatable one
This just happened to me:
I tried to close it as off topic, as I personally don't believe this falls under system administration. For others it may be a grey area, but I think it belongs on either …
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Is this new SF user posting too-many/too-poor questions
I'm bumping this up instead of writing a new question.
We have a person posting only homework-related questions wich are vague, obsolete or simply not a real question (this is the same dude who start …
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How is Server Fault doing as of late 2011?
IMHO, we have one or more of the following problems:
Too many low-quality questions. People with very little or no competence are asking questions which are either too "stupid" (entry-level) or out …
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Would a "Vote these questions up" chat room make sense?
The only thing that comes to mind is how this is going to be moderated. Who's to say that a particular question is really good or not? I'm afraid a chat room is just going to be abused (in the sense o …
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Is "Telephony" (as defined by Area 51 proposal) on topic here?
Almost every telephony/IM/presence question I've seen on SF attracts very little to no attention from anyone, so a separate site could probably attract telephony geeks.
From what I've experienced, th …
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Merge request: fedora tags
Please merge the following tags into the fedora tag, as I don't see any real usage of having a different flag for nearly every single fedora version released:
fedora8
fedora9
fedora13
fedora14
fedor …