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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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2023: a year in moderation
Was there really only one question closed by the community in 2023 ?
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Low effort questions with lack of basic troubleshooting
I have been playing the ServerFault game for almost as long as you have been an IT professional.
I have learned that, 'no one who needs to, reads anything'.
There are so many questions posted with an …
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Is this haproxy question appropriate for serverfault?
Yes, this question is off topic
Home use.
Obsolete/Unsupported equipment.
Bad Practices.
Thank you for bringing it to attention. If the moderation strike ever ends and if can be bothered I will cast …
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Labor action notice
I have not played the Serverfault game with any gusto for some time but my day job does land me here occasionally. When that happens I will often do some moderation.
I have signed the letter and will …
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Stack Overflow Inc. changes policy regarding enforcement of AI-Generated posts
Oh dear, the Amazon sized river of shit that is the question feed will now be complimented by a gulf stream of crappy LLM answers. With so few people who actually curate the content here it's no going …
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Answer to 11 year old question
A question does not need to be accepted to stop it from being pushed to the front page.
Unanswered questions get bumped to the front page. An unanswered question is a question that has no upvoted answ …
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Accepted
How are easy-to-spot review audits useful?
They are there to catch out robo reviewers.
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What to do about new users posting useless answers only to make themselves known?
You have all the tools you need to deal with this on a case by case basis yourself.
If an answer is useless then simply downvote it.
You could also consider protecting the question to stop it from bei …
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Can I Ask About Linux Server Security Vulnerabilities?
Your question is far to broad. I count 6 question marks, some of those questions contain multiple sub questions. This is not a good fit for Server Fault in particular or Stack Exchange in general.
S …
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Accepted
I will no longer be moderating SF
Michael,
I am truly saddened by your news but heartened that you are able to deliver it to us yourself. I hope that your continued treatment works, is not further complicated by the Covid-19 crisis a …
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Accepted
What about adding DevOps SE to the migration menu?
The devops site is still in beta, so by the company's rules it is not possible to add it to a migration list. The reasoning for this is that sites have to be able to stand on their own and pull in the …
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2018 Community Moderator Election Results
Congratulations to @Ward and @yagmoth555 have fun!
Thanks to @HBruijn and @EEAA for your moderation (in all senses).
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Accepted
Is Spam Assassin via CPanel configuration on-topic?
Nope.
Questins involving CPanel (and other web control panels) are not topical on Serverfault. There is an explicit off topic close reason for them
Questions involving web hosting control panels …
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How is questions per day calculated?
I was just looking at the Stack Exchange website and noticed that Server Fault is down to just 108 102 99 98 97 96 91 89 88 91 70 questions per day. This has dropped from 130 in Aug 2012 and I have a …
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Should I write an answer and have it closed immediately as duplicate as an effort to provide...
None of the wording is better - they both raise the same problem and have the same answers. The second one is obviously not indexed by Google.
They are then duplicates and you create work for the …