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My question got closed but I don't really understand why
I asked this question a few days ago and it got closed by someone from the comment section because I apparently "left out relevant details." I disagree on the relevance of the details but ...
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I asked a question for my work. Is this not 'managing information technology systems in a business environment'?
So I asked this question about a system I use for work: Wget and Curl complain about expired ceritificate, but it's not expired?
It got closed with the following reason:
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How can I move a stackexchange entry to another stackexchange server?
I see many excellent questions with excellent answers that are closed because the question was asked on the wrong server.
For example: A question was posted on stackexchange.com, but should have been ...
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Why is the question about Nginx, MySQL and Wordpress is off-topic?
I have a question about my Server Fault post: Wordpress via 3 PHP versions
Is here a place I'm able to ask questions about servers' software?
I thought the questions about installing Wordpress and ...
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Problems with low-traffic Stack Exchange sites
There seems to be several issues with some Stack Exchange sites. There is very low traffic in the sites, and question I ask are often deterred.
For one example, take a look at the https://math....
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Why can't we black list questions with description contain mobile number and string loans?
As we seeing lots of spam why can't we black list questions with description contain mobile number and string "loans" combo in this platform?
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Why is this question off-topic?
I was looking at this question which is historic but massively upvoted, and I don't understand why it's off topic.
Does orientation affect hard drive lifespan?
Mounting hard drives would seem to be ...
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Is it "a .ear file" or "an .ear file"?
For the question currently titled "How to deploy an .ear file in glassfish?", is it "a .ear file" (a dot-ear file) or "an .ear file" (an ear file)? Because it certainly ...
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Is this haproxy question appropriate for serverfault?
Does this question meet the criteria for on topic for SF? It is home networking but with enterprise hardware and software so it felt like it was blurring the lines as I typed it out but I was curious ...
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Should we have a Slack tag?
Questions like this one seem to be missing a "Slack" tag because we don't have a slack tag on ServerFault. This would be a logical addition to our tags since it is commonly used in many IT ...
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Massive Spam Attacks since couple of days
It seems that
https://serverfault.com/search?q=loan+number
My first page on ServerFault looks like
gets a lot of hits for the same spam type, and I'm already hitting the flag limits what could be ...
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Labor action notice
Today, 5th June, is the beginning of a strike by many StackExchange moderators over the recent policy announcement by StackExchange staff around handling AI and Large Language Model (LLM) generated ...
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Homepage spammed
Today, I saw a ton of posts by a ton of different account advertising the NBA. They completly filled the homepage and used up all my flags. What happened and how can this be prevented, since this has ...
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Stack Overflow Inc. changes policy regarding enforcement of AI-Generated posts
As per this post:
What is the network policy regarding AI Generated content?
Although the guidance given in this public post is somewhat different from what was discussed a day earlier in a private ...
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Explanation of closed posts
I have question I asked on [server fault <-mistake on my part, long day] StackOverflow, it was originally locked by mods asking for debugging details. I thought I had explained the issue fairly ...
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