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Accepted
I will no longer be moderating SF
Michael,
I am truly saddened by your news but heartened that you are able to deliver it to us yourself. I hope that your continued treatment works, is not further complicated by the Covid-19 crisis ...
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Why is HopelessN00b stalking me?
I wouldn't take it personally. I have it on good authority that the guy's just a prick.
But, he's a prick who's going through a massive tag cleanup effort at the moment, so he probably bumped into a ...
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Why does EEEA get to do what ever he wants and close questions because he wants proof of troubleshooting?
I am not a judge, but the ServerFault community did elect me to help ensure that questions and answers exchanged here meet certain standards. In the case of your question, not enough details were ...
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I will no longer be moderating SF
As one of the simple users, not even often here, let met thank you on our behalf.
Moderators do a ton of work for all of us, and almost all of it is done behind the scene, and they are rarely thanked ...
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Moderation inconsistencies
The deleted answer to which you link is really just a link to an off site resource and we have a long standing requirement for answers to contain content not just pointers to content. A précis of the ...
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Why does EEEA get to do what ever he wants and close questions because he wants proof of troubleshooting?
Firstly, your question wasn't a question. It was a statement of a problem that you're having. What should our response be? "Cool story, bro. Good luck." What were you expecting as a response to your ...
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Moderation inconsistencies
This kind of thing happens when you have more than one person doing the moderating. As it happens, the question you linked to was converted to a comment, so the content was preserved.
As it happens, ...
sysadmin1138Mod
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Moderation inconsistencies
I declined this flag. This is why:
So-called link-only answers have long been discussed on the network. Nobody really likes them, as they divert people off-site which is frustrating to them, and the ...
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Moderation inconsistencies
I've not deleted the answer, but converted it into a comment. This is what I always do for answers that are essentially links to external resources.
In my view, flags should be used to make us ...
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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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