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Massive Spam Attacks since couple of days
You can get an overview of the current issues many SE moderators are having with the company by reading the recent posts here on meta.SF That will lead you, if you're interested, to many more posts ...
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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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OK, so I just edited my on-hold question
I think most of the regulars contributing on Meta can see the revision history of your question but for completeness sake the original question I cast the fifth and final close vote on:
I own a ...
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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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I was in the midst of answering a question when my answer was deleted. Why?
As has been stated, when you post your answer it's an answer. You may have been posting bits and pieces, intending each piece to be but one part of the whole, but we have no idea of your intentions. ...
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I think my question was mistakenly closed and moved to SuperUser
While routing in itself would be topical here, and some VirtualBox questions could theoretically be topical, ServerFault doesn't really have a userbase that's knowledgeable about VirtualBox. In ...
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Are HTTP, web servers and web clients not used in a business environment?
The key is that questions must be about managing information technology systems in a business environment.
This means we are only interested in actual technical problems you face while doing this. ...
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I was in the midst of answering a question when my answer was deleted. Why?
I deleted the "answer" because it was not an answer, but simply a "me too" restatement of the question.
You should not post answers which don't actually answer the question, as these will be flagged ...
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Legal issues upon capturing digital proof upon hosting services scam
You've had this thoroughly explained to you already, but just to reiterate:
Among other things Server Fault is not for:
End user technical support
Mass web hosting questions
Legal questions
Given ...
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Are HTTP, web servers and web clients not used in a business environment?
I closed it, and for me it's borderline with another close reason, as it's could be seen as a learning recommendation.
I chooses that close reason, as like Sven told it talk about managing, which ...
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Can't fix a typo in a question?
I fixed the typo. The limit is deemed necessary by the powers that be. There is plenty of discussion about it on m.se and even some here on m.sf. I don't believe the limit is likely to change.
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I think my question was mistakenly closed and moved to SuperUser
I've been known to make mistakes before. It will probably even happen today. That said, I'm not going to discuss anything irrelevant to your migrated post, such as others' posts that you've linked to. ...
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Problems with low-traffic Stack Exchange sites
edit:
Become part of the solution
Your main problem appears that your questions don't get the answers that you feel they deserve.
That is indeed a problem and you find that on most sites, many ...
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What to do if my problem is already descibed in an other post, but the solution doesn't work for me?
If the (Accepted or not) Answer offered in a existing similar Question doesn't apply, please post yours as a new question.
It is useful to show your research efforts in your own questions. Therefore ...
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Warning because of 1 down-vote?
One of the annoying things is that de user interface hides deleted Q&A's even from the user who posted them.
Once you achieve >10k rep a search of deleted:1 combined with your user ID will list ...
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What does (unregistered) mean after name in user profile?
This user chose to "Post as a guest" rather than registering an account. The name shown is the name they gave at the time they posted.
Such users haven't set a password, verified an email address, ...
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Performing "Suggested Edits" with an reputation score below 2k?
The user in question approved another user's suggested edit to their own post. Anyone can approve or reject suggested edits to their own posts, regardless of reputation. This also happens to complete ...
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Massive Spam Attacks since couple of days
What Ward says about Smoke Detector is correct. We are keeping an eye on the sites that seem to be a big target. In this case we've added some regex to block phrases in titles that we've been seeing ...
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Answer/comment vanished?
Someone posted an answer that basically said "Yes it's possible here is a youtube video that explains how to install Hamachi".
The answer was later deleted by a moderator.
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OK, so I just edited my on-hold question
I thought the reaction to my question was a little over-the-top (a simple comment requesting clarification would have sufficed), so my reaction to the reaction was likewise.
Questions are easily ...
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Why does the code formatting not work?
You need 8 spaces for code formatting in lists.
1. This is a test
With code
will display as:
This is a test
With code
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Bounty removal request
I didn't know how to revoke a bounty before this, but now I do...
I expect you and the other commentors to throw some close votes on it if you feel it deserves it.
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Is enmimaquinafunciona.com allowed to provide ServerFault questions in Spanish?
Please see there; A site (or scraper) is copying content from Stack Exchange. What do I do?
SE rarelly bring into justice content scrapper from comments I seen in the past as often those sites close ...
yagmoth555Mod
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Bounty Option Not Available - Am I missing something?
You're almost there, the limit for offering bounties on your questions is 75 reputation points. Just a few more, and you're set.
sysadmin1138Mod
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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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How to deal with when useful answer or comment is deleted?
If the author decided to remove the answer (which he did), you can't do anything. Please remember that Serverfault is not a forum.
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would this question be more appropriate in SF?
It's OK on SO I think (as Docker/Win is just a dev tool...), and I just answered it there.
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Votes from users under 15 reputation
Since votes on comments don’t generate any reputation they don’t result in the notification of a change in reputation to the author.
Votes on answers (and questions) by any user allowed to vote ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible