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Could we set SD/Charcoal to have additional flags here?
While I turned down a similar request on Super User, our tooling and circumstances are very different - and in discussions with a Server Fault moderator, the prospect of having additional automatic ...
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Could we request the flag limit be adjusted?
Serverfault is getting hit badly by spam - and one of the available mechanisms is to increase the flags users have available. I'm sure we can light the beacons and get help, but with one spammer ...
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Is the VLQ flag restricted by reputation?
I came across the following question (see image below) and wanted to flag it as 'very low quality', but that option wasn't available to me. Is the VLQ flag restricted by user reputation?
I was ...
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Server Fault needs professional-quality questions, not just questions from professionals
In the nearly 4 years that I’ve participated on Server Fault, it’s been a community that I’ve been proud to be a part of, and I’ve been able to build my own skill set a lot and help people out at the ...
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Spam questions about loans
This seems like it should be blockable. Or slightly less easy to publish world wide. Or proof that AI is useless if it can't at least figure out to charge money for the advertising.
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Question closed as off-topic, while literally thousands questions in the same space exist
I would really love to understand why this question: Execute a function without actually typing the comand to do so, and print out its output instead got closed as off-topic, while so many others ...
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Massive spam on site in some hours
Can someone do something about spam posts? For last 4 hours I raise 100 spam flags...
Maybe tune anti spam filter?...
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What should Server Fault do with questions about web hosting control panels?
We've had this discussion before, but it's apparently time to revisit it. For some background, see:
http://meta.serverfault.com/q/1075/126632
http://meta.serverfault.com/q/3425/126632
http://meta....
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2024: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of ...
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Google Cloud will be Sponsoring Server Fault SE
Update December 23rd, 2024
The site sponsorship has been extended through March 31st, 2025.
Update September 20th, 2024
The site sponsorship has been extended through December 31st.
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How to edit a tag?
(I don't have tag edit privilege yet)
In the "tags" context when hovering over a tag, there is a link like "improve this tag" that allows me to edit the "tag wiki".
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What is the purpose of this edit?
An edit in question. (I rolled back, because it was damaging.)
It is approved by Community Bot.
It put some link into square brackets, else what it did is to add several instances of the phrase Please ...
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No limited time between posts
As I am involved in a few SE sites, I have noticed that basically all have a time limit between when you can post again, presumably to stop people spamming. For example, Super Users is 30 minutes, I ...
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I wanted to provide an answer for my question but it has been deleted
I have a question about my Server Fault post: Server not finding storage device driver. Can't see hard drives and unable to start Windows Server 2019
I posted this question about a month ago here or ...
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Can you add a company field in the user profile ?
Hello,
Most of the people answering and posting on serverfault are IT professionals, so a majority belong to a company or another and they can have a bias in their answer.
Is it possible for people ...
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