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Let's allow network automation questions, such as ansible, Python used to administer routers...

On / Off-Topic Automation Questions I think this is a decent start at solving the on / off-topic discussion for network automation: Good automation question: How do I use Salt-stack to do foo? …
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tools suggestion for debugging network off topic?

FWIW you can ask for software suggestions on Software Recommendations
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Disputing duplicate closure

YLearn reversed the closure. Thank you, YLearn.
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Correct procedure for inadvertant privacy breach?

Two ways of handling this... 1) As of 2016, Moderators have the power to redact content from a post. 2) Moderators can go to the Teachers Lounge chat room and ask the SE team to purge the privacy is …
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Are any OSI layer4 network protocols on-topic?

What is On-Topic Are there any OSI layer4 (or above) network protocol questions which are on-topic? Yes, this is even hinted at in the help center: If the question is about the design, the …
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Reason for this DHCP question being off topic

was given a comment indicating that at least one of the close voters Heh, well I was one of those close voters. Today, we only support networking appliances with paid support. OpenDHCP doesn't …
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Is it off-topic? Discussion of Open Source Alternatives to a Commercial Product

I want to hear ideas on how we can replace a commercial product with a set of open source alternatives however this will involve many features of a commercial product. Would this be off-topic? Qu …
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Community input on T-ball questions: Encourage or Discourage them?

Allow but do not encourage T-Ball questions There is a difference between encourage and allow. We should allow but not encourage T-Ball questions. Network Engineering is for professional network en …
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Why was this link-only flag declined?

The flag rejection was mistaken... see here for details Your answer is in another castle: when is an answer not an answer?
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Additional Closed Reason [Not enough details]

This question didn't fall under any off-topic reason, so it sat and lingered for almost a year and a half. Finally after months of asking "Can you please provide more details?" and no response, it …
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Being a more open community?

Summarizing and paraphrasing your questions: Should this stack be welcoming to strangers? We should be respectful to everyone, and to the degree that we're not enabling help vampires, we should …
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Network Engineering site design (UPDATED)

EDIT - 5 Jun 2015: Thank you very much for an outstanding redesign. I un-downvoted, and like the following: The router hockey-puck is a home run; great re-use of the puck as the letter "O". Simple …
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Stylistic Editing of Answers

What is the site policy for editing of answers? This is part of Stack Exchange's design... anyone can edit your posts if they think the edits will improve it. The policy is outlined in the Help …
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Please improve edit reviews: no radical changes to the post

Let's start with what is good: The suggested edit attempts to reword so the post is more clear The bad: The edit changes the post from "what qos testing standards" to "what qos tools or methodol …
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Come back to the question below: tunnel and VPN

Is tunnel a shortcut connection in internet? I read that tunnel is like protective cover for data. How this protective cover is created. What is this protective mean? Is it like Encryption? There …
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