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Stack Exchange has finally introduced a new copy button on SO (example), and we can request to have it available on other SE sites: We can also enable this feature on other tech sites that use code ...

The tags key and keys seem synonymous. Let's merge them?

How it is possible this answer to have no user and no timestamp Here is what I see:

Site-dependent settings have been introduced to customize Roomba, Stack Exchange's question auto-deletion script. By default: questions with a score of 0, with no answers, and with fewer than 2 ...

The tags gcp and google-cloud-platform seem synonymous. Let's merge them?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Can someone do something about spam posts? For last 4 hours I raise 100 spam flags... Maybe tune anti spam filter?...

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 ...

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 ...

(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". ...

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 ...

I would like to discuss the sense of have old Q/A to be pushed to the home page of SE sites. Here is a case when the Q/A is interesting but it is asked 14 years ago. And by the rules of ServerFault ...

Questions should demonstrate reasonable information technology management practices. Questions that relate to unsupported hardware or software platforms or unmaintained environments may not be ...

The tags clone and cloning seem synonymous. Let's merge them?

I posted a question about Windows Server 2012 R2 and how Windows Server chooses the protocol for the client hello packet However, the question was closed soon after due to being off-topic. I have ...

I wonder what's going on here: https://serverfault.com/a/932629/325117 https://serverfault.com/a/922350/325117 https://serverfault.com/a/933012/325117 The normal topic answer changed into absolutely ...

Is this normal? About one third of the edit review queue is filled by this user and similar, and their contribution to the post typically is literally two or three changed characters. Often, the ...

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 ...

The tags copy and copying seem synonymous. Let's merge them?

Why is Gerald doing what WPSE mods asked him to do? Closing my question for no reason? What are some good Nginx rate limits for WordPress websites? Very tired of the petty power trips and egos that ...

I have been using stack overflow for a few months now, and I really enjoy the dark mode feature. I recently tried to find the same feature on serverfault, but I couldn't seem to find it. Does anyone ...

I tagged my question tls but it appears to be a synonym of ssl. Considering TLS is over 25 years old and has long since replaced SSL, I think that ssl should be a synonym of tls and not the other way ...

I'm noticing that more and more questions related to some home lab environment are appearing. As I understand the rules, this is not on topic. And for fun fact, it appears that no one has asked this ...

Can we please prevent that someone who asks a question can answer his own question? A lot of workarounds get posted which are not ideal and may cause issues in the future

I read the FAQ about deletions, which suggests going to Meta for undeleting a question. Last year, I asked a question about migrating AWS elastic beanstalk environments. It never received an answer or ...

Trying to serve IIS files on a Mac - IIS seems to see directory structure but not individual files reasonable information technology management practices In the question, I am setting up a local ...

It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of you here might be ...

I have been active trying to help people here on serverfault and have been in IT for 15 years, and it's a problem on a lot of communities. But it would be great if we could provide feedback with ...

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My question about edge computing was closed as opinion-based. Here is the relevant help page: Opinion-based - Discussions focused on diverse opinions can be great, but they just don't fit our format ...

I touched on a link on the main site and it became darker. But I found it very similar to plain text. Some eyes really feel them the same. In fact, the color of plain text is #0B0D0F and for the ...

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 ...

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: Questions on Server Fault ...

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 ...

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 ...

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....

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...