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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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What to do with the "rm -rf" hoax question
It was closed as a dupe. Delete the hoax and keep the dupe. Consider merging the answers from the hoax into it. Remember SF is for practical problems you are trying to solve. A hoax by definition isn' …
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What to do with the "rm -rf" hoax question
Consider Nuking the OP's account too. Anything less will just encourage other marketing stunts like this.
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On the paucity of voting
paucity
ˈpɔːsɪti
noun
the presence of something in only small or insufficient quantities or amounts.
"a paucity of information"
The active community on Server Fault is tiny, most people come here to …
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Getting a bit too snarky
Can people stop being quite so snarky when answering questions please? There has been a noticeable increase in answers that begin with snarky/preachy statements followed by an answer, as well as gener …
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Is this the kind of language we should be promoting on SF
Today we had someone ask a question regarding a discussion they had had with their manager. For all we know they may want to show their manager the answers they got here. …
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How do high-reputation SF users solve their own problems?
I do my own research - when confronted with an issue I break out scientific method, being structured really does help in problem solving. It hasn't always been possible/practical to go and ask the int …
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My answer did not solve OPs problem; now what
It's entirely up to you what you want to do with your answer. You provided it in good faith based on the information in the question at the time you wrote it.
Remember - we're here not just for the …
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When is an answer Not An Answer?
This is intended to provide information for people who throw Not An Answer (NAA) flags and who might be surprised to see the canned decline reason "flags should not be used to indicate technical inacc …
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Paddington Bear Choppertar
Rogues gallery
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Should the rep requirement for creating tags on Server Fault be raised?
Yes increase the reputation requirement to create tags. Most people with only 300 rep probably don't quite get how tags are supposed to work. People tend to forget or not know that spaces separate tag …
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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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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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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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Dealing with blatant spam posts
The best thing to do is flag and downvote. Flags don't generally get left hanging around for long and enough of either will cause the post to be hidden/deleted automagically.
6 Spam flags will cause …
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