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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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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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Stack Overflow Inc. has decided that ChatGPT answers are allowed
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 ...
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Stack Overflow Inc. has decided that ChatGPT answers are allowed
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 ...
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Stack Overflow Inc. has decided that ChatGPT answers are allowed
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 ...
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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 ...
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Found useful info on a post closed as "too narrow/restricted". Is that Ok?
In such case please upvote the content. The close vote at that point is not important as the question was answered, and as it's upvoted it will never be erased by the roomba bot of StackExchange.
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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 ...
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