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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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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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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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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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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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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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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?
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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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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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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Accidentally shared personal information via screenshot. How to delete from stack.imgur.com?
Use the Contact Us form at the bottom of the page (select Other), and give us the link to whichever images you want removed. We will take care of it from there (assuming you uploaded them through this ...
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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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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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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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Asking a question about HTTP and HTTPS ports for hosting a website
Without seeing your actual question it's difficult to say for sure as there are likely more than one.
Why don't you just ask your question on Server Fault. If it's good and topical it'll get an ...
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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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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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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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