Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions or best-practices on a particular topic, with the goal of reaching community consensus.
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Server Fault now uses machine learning to flag spam automatically
We've deployed machine learning auto-flagging
Given the positive reception, we've activated machine learning anti-spam's auto-flagging feature, as detailed below. Staff will be monitoring its work ...
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2025: 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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Relax Roomba rules on Server Fault
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 ...
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Merge [gcp] and [google-cloud-platform]
The tags gcp and google-cloud-platform seem synonymous. Let's merge them?
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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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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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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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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.
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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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Visibility of old Q/A on home page
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 ...
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Is the "Questions should demonstrate reasonable information technology management practices" close reason too subjective?
Questions should demonstrate reasonable information technology management practices. Questions that relate to unsupported hardware or software platforms or unmaintained environments may not be ...
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