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Since HopelessN00b wants to have this discussion in public, I will oblige. I was on the site today because we got a few different emails this past week about it. … Note that the question I just linked to is the only discussion of this I've been able to find, and concerns a newly-asked question. …

Server Fault's third moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the two new moderators are: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for volu …

A few weeks back, Jay and I had a nice conversation with voretaq7 and Chopper3 where we discussed and debated the various items raised by the community here in http://meta.serverfault.com/questions/57 …

Server Fault's 4th moderator election has come to a close, the votes have been tallied, and the 2 new moderators are: They'll be joining the existing crew shortly — please thank them for voluntee …

I didn't intend that comment as a "cheap shot" - there's only so much you can say in the space of a comment. A little bit of background might help here: along with most of the people on my team, I sp …

So, for the sake of discussion, let's have some numbers on what has been recently deleted, who deleted it, and why. …

Makes it hard to be communicative when I am actually being preventing from responding. You asked to discuss this in public, so I obliged. Once that began, neither one of us could put the genie ba …

What should the community take away? Stop looking for a savior I've watched one moderator after another tire and burn out here, but somehow the reason behind it never came into focus for me until this …

The night before you posted this, I had a long conversation with Gabe (my co-worker) about an attitude he keeps encountering on pt.stackoverflow.com: certain types of questions seem to spark an immedi …

This is the nuclear option. If all else fails, it will be the solution. That said, I'd like to try a few other things first, and see how they work out. First off, we have a gigantic backlog of que …

27,911 posts were deleted on Server Fault during the past 365 days (query run on Feb. 16th, 2016). That breaks down as follows: Post Type Deleted by... Post …

Since the idea seems to have been well-received, I've turned this feature on. Feel free to log out and verify that it works... So how will we know if this has had any positive effects? Here's some bas …

If you don't have anything to contribute to the original discussion, then what's the point of starting it all anew? …

Discussion of this close reason so far have been... pretty abstract. That's a shame; it's a waste of everybody's time. … These custom off-topic reasons aren't here to define the limits of what's on- and off-topic; that's what your help and about pages are for, and both should be informed by the discussion of specific topics …

Make something specific and descriptive and link to your meta discussion from it; ideally, this should describe why these questions are being closed well enough that anyone reading won't be confused. …