Calling It Quits on ServerFault
Calling it quits on ServerFault By SysAdmin1138 on October 6, 2026 9:30 AM It's time to be done after just over 15 years of moderator work. I was elected in the very first community election in January and February of 2011, and by now I'm quite possibly in the top five for longest serving community moderators on the original trilogy sites of StackOverflow, ServerFault, and SuperUser. SF has always been the one I worked with and for.
- ▪Calling it quits on ServerFault By SysAdmin1138 on October 6, 2026 9:30 AM It's time to be done after just over 15 years of moderator work.
- ▪I was elected in the very first community election in January and February of 2011, and by now I'm quite possibly in the top five for longest serving community moderators on the original trilogy sites of StackOverflow, ServerFault, and Supe
- ▪SF has always been the one I worked with and for.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (Front Page) |
| Canonical URL | https://sysadmin1138.net/mt/blog/2026/10/calling-it-quits-on-serverfault.shtml |
| Publication time | Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:22:04 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-10-07T04:57:43.226Z |
| Last seen | 2026-10-07T04:57:43.226Z |
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| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Calling it quits on ServerFault By SysAdmin1138 on October 6, 2026 9:30 AM It's time to be done after just over 15 years of moderator work. I was elected in the very first community election in January and February of 2011, and by now I'm quite possibly in the top five for longest serving community moderators on the original trilogy sites of StackOverflow, ServerFault, and SuperUser. I could check, but I'm not motivated. SF has always been the one I worked with and for. 15 years, and I've learned so much about moderation and online technical communities. The early years of ServerFault were vastly more fractious than the site has been in the last 10, and taught me so much.
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