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What should we do with questions about Vagrant?

I would say yes. Systems administrators can also use vagrant for testing our own environments. Say you want to test your puppet manifests against a known standard configuration - you could vagrant up ...
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Should I write an answer and have it closed immediately as duplicate as an effort to provide more access points?

None of the wording is better - they both raise the same problem and have the same answers. The second one is obviously not indexed by Google. They are then duplicates and you create work for the ...
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What should we do with questions about Vagrant?

This is a topic I've been mulling over for quite some time, and I'm not sure I have a good answer. Nonetheless... The vast majority of vagrant usage is by developers, orchestrating development ...
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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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Can I ask for a comparison between two specific testing tools?

Such a question would most likely be considered a request for a product recommendation and closed as off-topic: Requests for product, service, or learning material recommendations are considered ...
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What should we do with questions about Vagrant?

It's kind of the same as VirtualBox or *AMPP. If you are preparing/deploying for other people then yes, on topic. Otherwise you are running close to development and SO is likely a better place. It's ...
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Can I ask for a comparison between two specific testing tools?

Without seeing your actual question it is difficult to tell but my feeling is that it won't go down well. Why can't you call/email Fluke and ask one of their sales engineers?
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Is a question about installing Apache modules on topic here?

Sure, go for it. Make sure you read the help section so that you understand what our expectations are. We don't do tutorials. The best SF questions are well-researched, reasonably-scoped, and well-...
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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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Can I ask for advice on a problem with a server if the OS I'm trying to install is not on the support matrix?

I'll give my opinion as a Linux and HP specialist... There are reasons HP have support matrices and limit what operating systems run on their hardware: Support: Hardware manufacturer support is ...
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Is TOR a Business related Environment?

Providing an onion site could very well be a legitimate business activity, as examples in the question comments show. Running a Tor relay or bridge might be business-related. As such, a question ...
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What's the issue with my questions on Ganglia?

The tooltip, when you hover over the downvote arrow, says "This question does not show any research effort; it is unclear or not useful". That's the closest you'll get to an authoritative answer as ...
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Can I migrate a question to another Stack site?

You yourself can't. But moderators can. You should be able to flag your own question for moderator attention: in need of moderator intervention A problem not listed above that requires ...
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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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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 ...
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What should we do with questions about Vagrant?

I haven't reviewed all the questions, but I think one of the issue is in this: If a SysAdmin has a question regarding Vagrant, it will probably be on-topic. Like Mark Henderson states, it may be used ...
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Active question from a user, but without activity?

A user posted an answer and then self-deleted it. The post would still have been active today if a moderator had deleted the answer, as well. When you reach 10,000 reputation, you will be able to ...
Michael Hampton's user avatar
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Any way for a non-moderator to see site statistics?

At 25,000 reputation, users gain access to various analytic data, including selected data from Google Analytics. Users with access can visit site analytics to see the data. At 10,000 reputation, ...
Michael Hampton's user avatar
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What to do about new users posting useless answers only to make themselves known?

You have all the tools you need to deal with this on a case by case basis yourself. If an answer is useless then simply downvote it. You could also consider protecting the question to stop it from ...
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Can I ask for advice on a problem with a server if the OS I'm trying to install is not on the support matrix?

As HBruijn says, it's likely that you'll end up with the answer "don't do that" - or that five non moderators will consider that this question falls afoul of the "unsupported" close reason. Also, the ...
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Reduce bump activity of the Community Bot

If there weren't so many "unanswered" questions, there wouldn't be so many to bump. I happen to have just looked at this recently bumped item a couple of minutes ago: performing a remote ...
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What should we do with questions about Vagrant?

I've tossed enough comments in so I thought I'd summarize my arguments in one place. Pro argument: Vagrant is an admin tool for managing environments My response Nonsense- out of all the admins ...
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