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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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Ephemeral close reason
Anyone with the close votes privilege can make up their own close reason by selecting "Other (add a comment explaining what is wrong)". The reason is also posted as a comment, and other users can then ...
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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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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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How to deal with people that don't accept your reasoning?
You flag it or post in meta.
It's not locked, to allow answers, but I put a comment warning about the edit war on it. Flag, or notify me (@HopelessN00b) if there are any more problems.
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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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Discourage / prevent "didn't read the question" answers
Discourage bad answers by downvoting them. Don't wait until they have an upvote left by someone else, as this is a net gain for the answerer and will only encourage them further. And if the answer is ...
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My question was marked as a duplicate. How can I object?
The best way to object to a question being marked as duplicate is to edit the question and explain clearly how the other question does not fit your situation. It's not sufficient to simply add a ...
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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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How to behave when receiving a comment about a duplicate for a question I've asked?
The help center explains this:
Some duplicate questions may eventually be deleted, but often they are left as a signpost pointing people towards the canonical answer to that question.
In other ...
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How to know the cause(s) of a down vote?
There is no reason to be "afraid" of a downvote as long as you usually write good, topical questions.
The downvotes were not mine, but something is immediately clear:
You actively try to ...
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But What About Otto? Can we hate that yet?
First, what's with the snark?
If you hadn't noticed, the three most upvoted answers on that question (1, 2, 3) proposed that yes, we would accept questions about vagrant, provided that it is ...
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How should I vote on a question which I consider too low quality to migrate?
You should still vote to close. Other people's votes are not your responsibility. All you can do is vote correctly.
Certainly, disagreeing with a close vote isn't a valid reason to flag, for example.
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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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Why am I close to being banned from serverfault?
You also have two deleted questions, one deleted by yourself and one closed and then autodeleted. Both got downvotes, and these count for the mechanic that triggers that warning.
You can't see your ...
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Discourage / prevent "didn't read the question" answers
No, you can't, and that's a very good thing.
You can always downvote an answer.
One answer will not stop others from reading the question and contribute better answers if they feel that the present ...
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How to deal with off-topic questions that cannot be closed?
You can flag it for moderator attention. A moderator can then deal with the bounty and close the question.
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Why was this question about Amazon CloudFront put on hold as off-topic?
The main problem that I have with this question: This is a question that should be asked to the vendors support and we are not the vendors support channel. You even met a representative of the vendor ...
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Why was this question about Amazon CloudFront put on hold as off-topic?
I was posting this as a comment, but it makes an answer in its own right.
In addition to what Sven wrote: As moderator I read a lot of questions and yours fits a common pattern of:
"Does product ...
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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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I've finished 100 days of consecutive login's into SF and I should have been getting the Fanatic badge but it's not there, how could this be?
Okay, It seems like there was a delay until I pressed the Reputation updates button on the top panel and only then I received the badge.
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Question closed because it was not in a busness enviroment, but i'm doing it for a company?
This is a software development question. It might fit on http://Stackoverflow.com, but I consider it a bit too basic to just migrate it over there.
Please check with their help center to see if the ...
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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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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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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible