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Overzealous Moderation - Thread wrongly put on hold
One very important requirement for questions on ServerFault: You need to be administrator on the system in question, in order to be able to fully follow possible answers. That rules you out, at least ...
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Moderator deleted my comment on his answer and wrongfully accused me of insult
"Do not do it again" is an order (an imperative statement), not a threat. A threat would be "If you do it again, I'll come to your house with a cream pie and throw it into your face while shouting, '...
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Moderator deleted my comment on his answer and wrongfully accused me of insult
I don't see any outright insults here on the part of naktinis, at least as far as I would be insulted, but your comment was also completely unnecessary and outright wrong in the situation.
To ...
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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 ...
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On hold for a valid question conforming to guidelines
...but they can edit their responses...
Unlike for questions and answers, comments only have a have very limited window (only 5 minutes) when edits are allowed. After that the only remaining "edit" ...
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On hold for a valid question conforming to guidelines
You are knowingly misrepresenting the situation. The original question and the first edits didn't form a suitable question for ServerFault and it was closed for this reason. This has been explained to ...
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Moderation Review Request - Apache Question
For what it's worth, I'd already voted to close it as off-topic, and although two respected moderators have said otherwise, I secretly continue to think it's off-topic, pretty much for the reasons you ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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post put on hold, no feedback, edited it several times, made comments but no reply from mods for days, now closed im blocked from new questions
Closing a question (same thing as putting it on hold) has nothing to do with being encouraging or not. It's a way to pause activity on a question while issues with it are being resolved.
Your ...
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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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Moderation Review Request - Apache Question
Questions about web server configuration are very on-topic here. I agree with the declination of your migration flag.
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Moderator deleted my comment on his answer and wrongfully accused me of insult
I would like to throw in my 2 cents here (I am sorry), as I get the feeling that people are talking past the posed question(s).
Talking past the question for a moment:
Let me pre-face it quickly by ...
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Moderator deleted my comment on his answer and wrongfully accused me of insult
Was the comment insulting? No. There was nothing there that was objectively insulting. In my opinion, a reasonable person should not be insulted, and the comment shouldn't be removed on grounds ...
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