25 votes

Labor action notice

I think it's important to remember that not only those with diamonds moderate. We all do - through up and down-voting, through closing, flagging and so forth. It's whats left of the community at stake....
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22 votes

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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19 votes

Massive Spam Attacks since couple of days

You can get an overview of the current issues many SE moderators are having with the company by reading the recent posts here on meta.SF That will lead you, if you're interested, to many more posts ...
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
17 votes
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Homepage spammed

I'm not a regular of Server Fault, but I figured I'd just reiterate what Makyen said in the comments in the form of an answer, as I am a participant in Charcoal, the group that runs Smoke Detector. ...
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12 votes

Stack Overflow Inc. changes policy regarding enforcement of AI-Generated posts

Oh dear, the Amazon sized river of shit that is the question feed will now be complimented by a gulf stream of crappy LLM answers. With so few people who actually curate the content here it's no going ...
user9517's user avatar
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12 votes

Homepage spammed

Yeah, I've been fighting this group of spammers since the Oscars. SmokeDetector is why it hasn't been seen much by people, but has been a real thorn in the side of the moderators. I managed to ...
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11 votes

Labor action notice

Since this has gone live, StackExchange staff has provided rather more data to the Moderator community backing up their claims of AI/LLM-detection tools likely causing more harm. The details are not ...
sysadmin1138's user avatar
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10 votes
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Problems with low-traffic Stack Exchange sites

edit: Become part of the solution Your main problem appears that your questions don't get the answers that you feel they deserve. That is indeed a problem and you find that on most sites, many ...
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9 votes
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What is the proper procedure when an old answer no longer works?

Generally the same applies as with any other problem, you ask a good question that includes: What are you trying to do? What have you tried in order to make it happen? What results did you expect? ...
HBruijn's user avatar
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8 votes

Massive Spam Attacks since couple of days

What Ward says about Smoke Detector is correct. We are keeping an eye on the sites that seem to be a big target. In this case we've added some regex to block phrases in titles that we've been seeing ...
Catija's user avatar
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7 votes

Stack Overflow Inc. changes policy regarding enforcement of AI-Generated posts

Server Fault exists as a separate entity, among the thousands of SEO-stuffing sites competing for the same keywords, only as long as it is substantially exceeding their ability to curate content. Our ...
anx's user avatar
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6 votes

Stack Overflow Inc. changes policy regarding enforcement of AI-Generated posts

Fantastic. So they don't give communities autonomy they've had previously on moderation, but rather stick a centralized policy. This is not gonna strengthen the community. It may work out in very ...
vidarlo's user avatar
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5 votes
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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,...
sysadmin1138's user avatar
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5 votes

How can I move a stackexchange entry to another stackexchange server?

Moving a question to another stack exchange site is called migration, but it has limitations. You cannot do it yourself, but it is done using the same methods than for closing the question. You can ...
Esa Jokinen's user avatar
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5 votes

Low effort questions with lack of basic troubleshooting

I have been playing the ServerFault game for almost as long as you have been an IT professional. I have learned that, 'no one who needs to, reads anything'. There are so many questions posted with an ...
user9517's user avatar
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3 votes

I asked a question for my work. Is this not 'managing information technology systems in a business environment'?

I would extend the reason to "generally acceptable technologies and practices that are found in a typical business environment". Hardware, operating systems and applications that are end of ...
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3 votes

Why is this question off-topic?

I think the question is arguably off-topic since it's more about hardware design than system administration. But I would guess that the question is locked because it was getting low-quality answers a ...
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
3 votes

I asked a question for my work. Is this not 'managing information technology systems in a business environment'?

I'am not a Linux expert nor I voted to close, but there is two issues I see with your question that could bring a close vote. To state it too, close are not permanent, if you correct the question it ...
yagmoth555's user avatar
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3 votes

Why doesn't ServerFault allow questions about unsupported hardware/software platforms?

Security. Orphaned products and platforms do not receive security updates, which results in vulnerabilities that cannot be fixed. Support. Although it should be obvious, few people like systems that ...
Greg Askew's user avatar
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3 votes

What is the proper procedure when an old answer no longer works?

In addition to what's explained HBrujin's excellent answer, it's worth mentioning bounties. Bounties allows you to give an explanation for why you're setting the bounty - and up to date answers is a ...
vidarlo's user avatar
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3 votes

Low effort questions with lack of basic troubleshooting

Our comments and close-voting are the intended feedback avenue for "insufficient troubleshooting." People are quite active with close-votes for this reason, believe me. As for a FAQ list or ...
sysadmin1138's user avatar
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3 votes

Simple Question: are homelab questions are on topic for Serverfault

I know of people whose home-lab is better equipped than the test/lab equipment many of my employers were providing me with. From such people I would expect great questions that are on-topic for ...
HBruijn's user avatar
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3 votes

How to enable dark mode in serverfault

Does anyone know if there is a way to enable dark mode on serverfault? There ain't - officially For now, we have no plans to bring dark mode to the many sites across the Stack Exchange network. Many ...
vidarlo's user avatar
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2 votes

What is the proper procedure when an old answer no longer works?

A question should not be closed merely because someone else has asked it. Questions should be closed when an answer on another question provides a working solution to your question. (This also ...
Paul's user avatar
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2 votes

If this question is off-topic, where is it on-topic?

It was closed as being a "shopping question": Requests for product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they attract low quality, opinionated and spam ...
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
2 votes

Why doesn't ServerFault allow questions about unsupported hardware/software platforms?

What is the rationale for not allowing questions about unsupported platforms? It's been my experience that a big part of being an IT professional is dealing with old stuff. In general each question ...
HBruijn's user avatar
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2 votes

Why can't we black list questions with description contain mobile number and string loans?

To let it know the site can make such regex but via the smoke detector’s bot. (Which is no longer an option during the strike, as the bot is turned off) In exemple before the moderator strike we asked ...
yagmoth555's user avatar
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2 votes

Should we have a Slack tag?

Just create it if you feel the need for it. You have more than enough reputation to create tags. There are already more than 100 questions containing the word slack. I'd say it's warranted.
Gerald Schneider's user avatar
2 votes

I asked a question for my work. Is this not 'managing information technology systems in a business environment'?

Further to the other answer, when multiple close reasons are selected by close-voters, only one (whatever gets the most votes) is shown. There was a close-vote for the reason mentioned in the other ...
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar

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