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How to handle situations where a user needs professional support and you are willing to provide it?
Agreed, this is a touchy subject, and I appreciate that you are bringing it up.
There are many barriers in place: both technical and ethical. Technical, in that we don't have a PM feature, and ...
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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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Can I unvote/remove a downvote or upvote I gave?
You can change the vote for five minutes. After that, the vote can only be removed after the voted-upon question or answer has been edited. This is by design.
If you accidentally voted, just click ...
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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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Splitting questions into difficulty categories
First, the site is not designed to do this and if you want to propose a feature along that line, you would need to ask a question on the general StackExchange meta site. I could migrate this question ...
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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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crossposting: How to deal with question asked twice on other stack exchange sites?
If the question isn't a complete waste of electrons, V-t-C migrate to the more appropriate site, and then it can be closed as a dupe. Adding a comment to the to-be-migrated question linking to the ...
wombleMod
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Can we increase the number of close-votes per day?
I've set the limit at 50 per day, making Server Fault consistent with other large sites on the network.
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Can we increase the number of close-votes per day?
Bumping this. Given recent events it's possible we need this now more than ever. I've burned through 20 in an hour today alone, and our close queue is steadily increasing.
I'm in favor of an ...
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Can we have more "Suggested Sites" for question migrations?
We had a lot of arguments over that in past years. ServerFault is unusual in that we have five such targets, but we managed to get them.
The problem at its core is a simple design philosophy:
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crossposting: How to deal with question asked twice on other stack exchange sites?
As a longer-term solution, I would suggest adding cross-posting as an explicit reason when flagging and/or closing questions. This is already being used on Unix & Linux, listed under Off Topic.
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Migrate to Raspberry Pi option?
Not possible without first removing one of the other migrate options. There is a hard limit for the number of sites we can have in the migration list and the SE staff has always refused to add more.
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Reduce bump activity of the Community Bot
So, I can't change the timing. But I can change the volume.
The component of the site that does this runs hourly, and the logic is currently set to bump 2 posts. Here's how I'm changing it:
It'll ...
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Configuration management questions
Such things are generally in the overlap between our topicalities. You'll get answers on both, but they are considered topical here. I've even asked them.
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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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New review option: approve trivial edit?
Just approve it. Stack Exchange has made it clear that they think bumps are a good thing, and don't care enough to code in a feature for no-bump edits. If they wanted to have no-bump minor edits, ...
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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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Can we increase review queue limits?
First off, note that the limit automatically increases if the backlog gets really big. It's more or less permanently 40/day on Stack Overflow simply because thousands get added every day.
But 20 ...
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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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Should NetworkEngineering be added to the migration close reason?
The problem with adding this as a migration target is that we would need to remove others, as the SE team strictly limits the number of targets and (without having hard numbers at hand) I don't ...
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How can I add bounties for my question
Please read https://serverfault.com/help/bounty
The important part for you:
A bounty can be started on a question two days after the question was asked.
This means you just can't add a bounty to ...
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Nuke accounts or ban addresses that edit my honeypot answer
There aren't any accounts associated with the IP addresses which have bee proposing edits to your answer. So there's no one to ban. The good news is they're getting their IP addresses rate-limited and ...
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Can we have more "Suggested Sites" for question migrations?
Most likely no, due to a more or less arbitrary limitation imposed by the SE staff. I can't find relevant discussions right now, but if I remember correctly, there was much debate to even get a fourth ...
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What do you do when you see an outdated question or answer?
In such case I would suggest to post another answer AND to edit the actual accepted answer to write a notice at the answer bottom in a quoting style, something like that;
Please know this answer ...
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Edits shouldn't require a minimum number of characters changed
There is nothing that anyone here on ServerFault can do about this*. The 6-character minimum is part of the software used across all SE sites and is unlikely to be changed.
Looking on meta.SE (where ...
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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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What about a "question follow" feature?
This feature exist: The "favorite question", marked by the star below the question score and up/downvote arrows.
See How do favorite questions work?
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Can we increase review queue limits?
If you really want to close something in the queue, you can click through to the Question and close it there. I know this isn't a good answer, since it's a pain, but it's what I plan on doing when I ...
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