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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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How to get StackOverflow moderators to put hosting questions on Webmasters instead

You are right that they don't belong here on SF. I would go further to say that like other shopping style questions the don't belong on SE at all and should be closed as off-topic.
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Will/Should Serverfault be dropping the "networking support" in the upcoming future?

The original tag line for the site said Network Engineering ... network engineers and administrators This has subsequently been edited to remove the and administrators so now it reads Network Engineer …
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Is the dark blue system notification bar annoying?

Stylish is your friend if using Firefox. @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml); @-moz-document domain("serverfault.com") { #system-message { display : none ;} } Stylist is your friend if us …
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Free LOPSA Memberships

I'm interested in membership too. Although my local (European) chapter in Dublin doesn't seem very active.
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Missed opportunity to provide a good answer to a less than ideal question?

You didn't say which other solutions you had considered and why they didn't meet your requirements. Your question is What I'd like to know is if there is a single command (or one liner) that disp …
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Amend an accepted answer to be more correct

The system positively encourages editing to make things better. Your changes will be recorded in the edit history. The edited answer will get bumped to the front page and 'peer' reviewed. As long as …
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Is it taboo to answer my own questions to promote nice features of <xyz> app?

If you asked a question specifically about zsh features it would likely get closed by the community as off topic or (better) be flagged for migration to Unix & Linux because that's where it belongs. …
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Downvoting really old questions?

A month or two isn't really old. The first questions on the site are from April 2009. A good answer is good if it's 10 minutes old or 2 years+ old, the same goes for bad/poor answers.
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rsync here or superuser?

This depends upon the context of the question. Our FAQ clearly states "Server Fault is for system administrators and desktop support professionals, people who manage or maintain computers in a profess …
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3 votes

Can I Appeal "Not A Real Question"

I don't think people have actually grasped what I'm asking here This is true, I read your question several times before making my comment and even now it's still relevant - I don't really underst …
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What AutoReviewComments have you come up with?

My current automagic comments are here http://pastebin.com/XHBkSRiy ###[A]Nothing but a URL (and isn't spam) We really do prefer that answers contain content not pointers to content. Whilst this may …
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Making edits and approving edits on a question

I approved that for several reasons the main ones being that The changes cleaned up and fixed the op's syntax which I felt was for illustrative purpose only (I think they would have given an error …
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Best 'restricted shell' question

The link in the question has been merged into the list of canonical answers we have discovered.
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Need some clarification

I didn't read the question to determine if it should stay or not - I just read your flag comment. I then declined your flag because you could have cast your own vote to close the question but chose to …
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How long before a closed question is deleted?

Further information The question lifecycle http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/04/the-stack-overflow-question-lifecycle/ and votes required to delete more popular questions Should delete votes be l …
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