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We should bring back the "question must show a minimal understanding" close reason
I'd like to see it make a come back, there are far too many people asking questions that are basically HALP ! I have no idea what I'm doing or where to start. Please guide me.
The quality of questions ...
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Do we consider Bitnami to fall under the cPanel close reason?
Bitnami stacks are off-topic for a very similar reason to why WAMP/XAMPP/etc stacks are off-topic - they encourage non-standard deployment methodologies, and actively discourage users from actually ...
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We need a custom close reason for web hosting control panels
I propose that the following close reason be used. Until it is installed as a custom close reason, it can be pasted into the Other custom box:
Questions involving web hosting control panels are off-...
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We should bring back the "question must show a minimal understanding" close reason
My suggestion to solve this issue would be to merge two of the existing close reasons (in order to free up space, but also because it makes sense to merge them) and to add a new one.
The new close ...
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Change the duplicate excerpt
For the reader, it's extremely irrelevant which question has been asked first. While it might be more correct, the "problem" just doesn't matter enough to warrant any action.
Honestly, this appears ...
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Why should questions about interactions between my server and bots off-topic?
We don't accept web panel question. This topic had been covered a lot in the past and wont change today.
I think whether I have root access to my server or not is irrelevant.
To answer you on ...
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Question closed because it was not in a busness enviroment, but i'm doing it for a company?
This is a software development question. It might fit on http://Stackoverflow.com, but I consider it a bit too basic to just migrate it over there.
Please check with their help center to see if the ...
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closed serverfault question
Yes, for the majority of users on SF, this distinction is important for several reasons. Browse through meta.sf to get the picture, this is a regular topic here.
It boils down to "We are not the ...
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Question closed because it was not in a busness enviroment, but i'm doing it for a company?
Your question was closed because it it not about MANAGING information technology systems in a business environment.
Your question looks like your're trying to learn about developing web pages with C# ...
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Should we refer to U&L in the "managing information technology systems in a business environment" off-topic reason?
I'm of two minds on this.
Mind 1:
If it was good enough, why didn't the close-voters vote to migrate it? It's a target after all.
Mind 2:
Makes sense. Sure.
By referencing it, we open the door to ...
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What's the best close reason for impossible troubleshooting questions?
Personally, I'd tend to favor leaving them open. We may not be able to offer better advice than general how-to-troubleshoot-crappy-code instructions in order to give it the permissions it requires, ...
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Why should questions about interactions between my server and bots off-topic?
You appear to be operating under the misapprehension that questions are assessed in some isolated, sterile environment, free from any influence of the past communications of the asker. This is an ...
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What's the best close reason for impossible troubleshooting questions?
What HopelessN00b said. I've supported some truly horrible applications. Not horrible from the end-user standpoint--they did the task the end-user needed them to do, sometimes quite well--horrible ...
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We should bring back the "question must show a minimal understanding" close reason
So what are you trying to accomplish, exactly?
I mean, here's your example:
It got deleted in under two hours and never got an answer. Closing it would've accomplished nothing; all closing does is ...
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Where do questions regarding labs for enterprise equipment & software belong if not SF?
My reasons were thus:
It's a home environment.
Even if it is supported by VMware, the configuration you propose is not something that any sane sysadmin would ever implement. If you want to lab out ...
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New close reason - Proposals (April 2015)
One reason I propose is either
Failure to show prior effort to solve the problem
According to our guidelines for asking a good question, Server Fault should be the last stop in your quest for ...
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Should we introduce a close reason for old, unanswered and unlike-to-be-answered questions?
Nope! The SE robot does a few things with these.
Questions with no upvoted answers are bumped to the front page in pairs at random. I believe two questions are picked every four hours. This is ...
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Where do questions regarding labs for enterprise equipment & software belong if not SF?
You can rent a server from OVH (others too probably) for about 100USD per month, they list ESXi as a virtualisation environment they have available for preinstallation.
The setup above is much closer ...
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We should bring back the "question must show a minimal understanding" close reason
I totally agree that there are a lot of questions where the minimal understanding close reason would apply and is better than any of the other canned reasons, but on the other hand, I don't think a ...
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On-topic automation/management tools vs off-topic product recommendations - where the border lies?
The close reason chosen lays it out quite well:
"Requests for product, service, or learning material recommendations
are off-topic because they attract low quality, opinionated and spam
answers,...
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Why is my question about docker-compose off-topic?
Docker Desktop and the Linux subsystem for Windows are not production level tools. Instead, they are meant for dev and/or home use and are thus off-topic. Questions about these tools might be asked on ...
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On-topic automation/management tools vs off-topic product recommendations - where the border lies?
Regarding your edit:
However, questions "what of AAA, BBB, CCC that can do XXX?" is much more narrow and more clearly defined and thus the clear answer can be provided such as "None" or "Try DDD" ...
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Should we refer to U&L in the "managing information technology systems in a business environment" off-topic reason?
If the question is good enough, it should be migrated, not closed. I do a lot of votes to migrate to U&L, and I'm also occasionally active there. (I also tend to comment and explain why I'm voting ...
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We should bring back the "question must show a minimal understanding" close reason
Personally, I think that if the powers that be at StackExchange would ease up a little on allowable custom-close reasons, the problem would solve itself. In all seriousness, I'm voting to close your ...
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Please reinstate "must know what you are talking about" close reason
5 custom close reasons is the max allowed. Although some of the current reasons overlap a bit, they all come up often enough that I wouldn't choose to get rid of them.
I think the "Questions ...
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Where this is a web hosting control panel?
Yes, not sure what I was thinking there. I've reopened it. Sorry for the mistake.
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Why doesn't ServerFault allow questions about unsupported hardware/software platforms?
As it happens, the Stack Enterprise solution you can buy for your company includes a "content health" close-queue specifically to capture this aging concept.
But this is not Stack Enterprise,...
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Should we refer to U&L in the "managing information technology systems in a business environment" off-topic reason?
I am often hesitating to use the current close reason for questions which I think should be closed. When I am hesitating to use it the reason usually is either:
The question would be off-topic for ...
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Do we consider Bitnami to fall under the cPanel close reason?
Based on the current stats I don't think bitnami is much of a problem topic at the moment, so I would be in favour of treating each question on its own merits, rather than issuing a blanket ban.
The ...
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What's the best close reason for impossible troubleshooting questions?
For me it's too broad.
As for me such question fall into the answer to use processmonitor if you can't contact the software vendor.
Does we support application not supported by the vendor/coder, I ...
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