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Do questions about managing and troubleshooting gaming server software belong here?

Of the questions you linked to 1 and 2 are software specific and not really system administration and will almost certainly get closed as off topic. Number 3 is more suited to SF. There's a huge fuzz …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
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Where to ask complex but home network questions?

I'm as quick as anyone else at voting to close or migrate OT questions but there are times where it can be a bit of a grey area. e.g. My home network also hosts the secondary DNS for my employer's dom …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
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Reverse-migrating questions from other Stack Exchange sites?

of the posters don't follow the question after the migration the almost obligatory prompts for more (or even relevant) information are to no avail, making the questions less than beneficial to the site …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
5 votes

Possible migration from Programmers

No, absolutely not. That's such a poor question it needs to be closed, not migrated. Unless it's really obvious that a question really is about an administration issue AND appears to have sufficient i …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
4 votes

Would asterisk questions be welcome here?

Definitely, just like Exchange, SQL Server, Oracle, DNS servers, etc., etc. These are very much admin things.
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Is there an age cut off on the questions you want migrated from SO?

Given the highly dynamic nature of the industry and the gear we work with I'm personally inclined to think that any question over a year old should be killed off, rather than migrated. Let's face it, …
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Should users <3k flag to migrate?

My feeling is that the majority of "low rep" users, especially those below 1K, are unlikely to even be aware that the voting options exist. This feeling is based mainly on my perception that few ever …
John Gardeniers's user avatar
3 votes

Migration statistics for February

I may be wrong but I believe the Webmasters migrations are artificially high because a number of historical questions have been moved there, as that site didn't exist when those questions were posted. …
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Why was my question migrated to Super User?

Your question wasn't about administering, managing or supporting servers, desktops or related gear. It was about an application. Whether that's an "enterprise" edition or not is really quite irrelevan …
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Guidelines for question migration

When something pops up on the front page that I don't believe belongs on SF now I vote accordingly. I really don't care whether or not is was ever appropriate for SF in the past. Further, although the …
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Should Server Fault be removed from Stack Overflow's migration list?

Considering the basic premise that a question posted on the wrong site is almost guaranteed to be crap the I'm very much in favour of stopping migrations by regular users. However, restricting migrati …
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