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Can we weed out the benchmarking questions?

What about someone asking for tools to be used in benchmarking? Seems to me that would be perfectly on topic. e.g. Someone might be looking for the tools and/or methods which might be employed to per …
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Using "not a real question" as a close reason on questions that have answers

I have seen, and voted on, quite a few questions that are and indeed should be closed as NARQ, despite having answers. I can't see why it having answers should make any difference. For the particular …
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Can we come up with a consensus opinion on Purchasing Suggestions?

I see a number of problems, as well as reasons to close, such questions. They are invariable localised. e.g. What may be a great budget buy elsewhere might very well be a costly item where I am and vi …
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Should questions that are sysadmin-relevant but not sysadmin-specific be closed as Off Topic?

I personally think you are reading far too much into whatever data you are using to support your argument that "In practice, the ServerFault community seems to favor school #2". The reason is absurdl …
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How can I know why the question was deemed non-constructive (and closed)?

Let me address this as one of those who voted to close the question, although I can't now recall which of the several possible reasons I used for that vote. Quite apart from it being a shopping quest …
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