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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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The never ending flood of "what kind of server do I need for X amount of requests per hour"

These kind of questions just keep pouring in, and the same thing happens every time. The questioneer never gives out enough details to even guess what kind of spec/bandwith he/she needs, the type of …
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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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Inactive mods on SF - Or are they?

An interesting discussion just spun up on the SF chat, which clearly showed that some of us have strong feelings about how this site should be moderated - and who's job it is. …
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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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It's Santa Time!

(Courtesy of Iain)
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Serverfault, superuser, or nowhere?

Remote worker/teleworker at home isn't "home usage" per se, so SF is fine.
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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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Unqualified "professionals"

One thing comes to mind: Where are the newbies going to go eventually if we close the door completely? I'm also sick and tired of the questions, but I choose to not answer them..
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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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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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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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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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What do we do when a user edits their own post while not logged in or logged in as a differe...

I would reject both, with a message to tell him to log on to his original account if he's the owner of the question. The first one should be posted as an answer.
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It's Santa Time!

(shameless bump) Santa time again!

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