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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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Is it time to kill problematic tags like cpanel, plesk, whm and webmin?

This is a particular set of broken windows that is long overdue fixing. I think though it depends on where you are sitting as to whether your Panel question is topical or not. If you are using a P …
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Clean up [change] tag?

My vote goes to burninate - it's adding nothing.
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Changing the site subtitle

There has been some disquiet and discussion recently about the number of poor inbound migrations to Serverfault. One suggestion is that our subtitle Q&A for system administrators and desktop sup …
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Proposals regarding the Amazon and related tags

The amazon tag is being misused in a similar manner to the vmware tag in that questions tagged amazon are not about the company but the services that they provide. There are several related Amazon s …
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What Server Fault-specific advice should we give folks asking questions here?

I recently stole Jon Skeet's excellent check list and modified it for use on Server Fault. I've left a link to it in quite a few comments recently and on a several occasions people have responded posi …
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Can the Vmware tag be deleted ?

The plain vmware tag adds no value as we never get any questions about the company. When it is used it is usually used in error and in place of a product specific tag which would be more useful. This …
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Modifying the faq, shopping edition

If you can link the bullet point to Q&A is hard lets go shopping and or gorilla vs shark then all the better.
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Please block the amazon tag

We did some work to remove the plain amazon tag recently but yesterday 2 questions appeared with the tag. Can the amazon tag be blocked please?
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Tag cleanup required

Apache 2.4 is sufficiently different from earlier releases that a new tag apache-2.4 has recently been created for it. There are a number of questions that have already been asked about Apache 2.4 whi …
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This question appears to be off-topic because it is about <end>

Erm, it's not empty and they 'grey out' the button if you remove all the text. I guess it's an attempt to get people to leave a constructive comment but as ever 'pink and fuffyness' prevails and y …
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7 votes
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Burninate 'legal'

The legal tag is no more.
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Interpretation of Off Topic

You could conceivably ask any IT related question on SF and expect to have it answered but that is not our mission. Let's take Windows 7 as an example If someone says How do I use $applicaton on Wind …
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Please delete [tag:tweaking]

tweaking has been recently created - please burninate it before it picks up too many uses.
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restore my users

I have merged your accounts together user:105707 is the master account now and is associated with your yahoo email address. Please consider becoming a registered user.
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