26 votes

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 ...
Sven's user avatar
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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?

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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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 ...
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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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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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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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7 votes

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 ...
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
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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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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 ...
yagmoth555's user avatar
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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 ...
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
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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5 votes
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adding ipset tag

I've just created the tag ipset.
Sven's user avatar
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5 votes

Answer to own questions

Anyone can ask and answer questions. Self answering is generally encouraged to the point that there is a box to tick when asking a question that allows you to add an answer before the question is ...
user9517's user avatar
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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 ...
HopelessN00b's user avatar
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Questions with accepted answers should stand out more

When the UI got updated in the past, it was reported as a bug and never fixed. A side note on mobile the UI is the same for all site, as such the color are better suited for question with accepted ...
yagmoth555's user avatar
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Request adding Raspberry Pi stack to off topic site list

As the volume of RPi question is low please flag for a migration if you think it's worth a migration. Our other close destinations are more used and in my own opinion are more related to ServerFault ...
yagmoth555's user avatar
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4 votes

Reduce bump activity of the Community Bot

The numbers on the graph mentioned in the question suggests there are an average of approximately 1.5 questions asked per hour. As community bumps 2 questions per hour there will on average always be ...
user9517's user avatar
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4 votes

Privacy issue, links for sharing questions, answers contains user ID

The way the "Share" links work is system-wide, so this request would have to be raised on the main Meta site, and there are already questions about it there. The most relevant post about ...
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
4 votes

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 ...
Ward - Trying Codidact's user avatar
3 votes

Please reinstate "must know what you are talking about" close reason

Sadly, I don't think this is going to fly as it will hurt people's feelings which goes against company policy. Your best bet it to roll your own by choosing Close -> A community-specific reason -&...
user9517's user avatar
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How about creating a tag for Powershell JEA (Just Enough Administration)?

I've created the tag powershell-jea by adding it to this question. If you have enough reputation for this, feel free to propose edits to the tag wiki.
Sven's user avatar
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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 ...
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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 ...
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crossposting: How to deal with question asked twice on other stack exchange sites?

When you see a question that has been cross-posted on multiple Stack Exchange sites, do two things: Add a comment pointing out the cross-post and describing that our policy forbids cross-posting. ...
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