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If there is an closed question on serverfault, and it is old enough that it can't be migrated, and you are certain it would be a good fit on another site, and it wouldn't duplicate an existing questi …

It kinda depends on the question, and you as a person who posts on the Internet. I don't usually mention who I work for, specific server names, or IP addresses in answers or questions, but my userid …

Apparently we have two almost equally used tags that are being used mostly for the same purpose. Lets pick one, merge, and setup an alias. I like the backup-restoration choice a bit more, because it …

Do you really think that Is RHCA good? is a good question that will actually have value for people. The problem I see with most career questions is that ~95% of them are crap like the one you mention …

Should I just go with any of the above, depending on how much time I want to put into it? Close, this is going to be extremely dependant on context. There are probably correct situations, for al …

I know the syntax highlighting for code blocks is disabled on superuser. Do we want it disabled here as well? It seems to me that the large majority of the time a code block is used is for log fragm …

There is nothing wrong with a nice generic answer. They are frequently better than nothing. If this is the type of answer you prefer to give, feel free to continue doing that. On the other hand, if …

While searching for some information related to Windows Server Core, I went to the tag search and searched for core. There are many takes which seem to overlap related to multi-core processors. mult …

The question should be closed as too localized. The Can you help me with my capacity planning? was created to give some general advice about benchmarking and planning as an alternative to close quest …

There are lots of sysadmin related reddits and there are frequently Q&A style posts http://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/ http://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/ http://www.reddit.com/r/devops/ SpiceWork …

No we don't have to drop the networking questions any more than we dropped questions related to security, databases, and other topics. If it relates to professional system administration it can be as …

Simple. Don't mention the job title at all. Questions here should be about your technical problem, not about your job title. As a general rule we don't want or need to know your job title or organi …

If the old question heavily overlaps with your new question aside from some minor details, then another option would be to simply add a bounty to the old question along with some comments asking for c …

Is “don't personally know the answer to this question” a reason to close? No it isn't, not sure where you got the idea that it was. How to stop it? IMO It doesn't happen, or rarely happens. …

I'm really getting sick of seeing questions like this being closed for being "too localized'. Keep in mind that close reason is just whatever reason that received the most votes, but that could b …