It's very simple:

• Server Fault is a community of professional (and wannabe professional) sysadmins

• security.se is a community of professional (and wannabe professional) security experts

It's all about asking questions tailored to, and appropriate for, the specific audience.

Do we have programmers who "wear multiple hats" and play a sysadmin role at a small company insisting that they should be able to ask their sysadmin questions on Stack Overflow and "just tag them, what's the harm"? Sure we do. But that doesn't fit our model of expert communities.

As for what should be moved, I support moving the true "expert" type questions that benefit from ninja-level, specialized pro skills.

It's the same rule I use when determining which database questions should be moved from stackoverflow to dba.stackexchange. Is this question "how do I create an index" or is it "Why can't I use newid() in a user-defined table-valued function?"

It's very simple:

• Server Fault is a community of professional (and wannabe professional) sysadmins

• security.se is a community of professional (and wannabe professional) security experts

It's all about asking questions tailored to, and appropriate for, the specific audience.

Do we have programmers who "wear multiple hats" and play a sysadmin role at a small company insisting that they should be able to ask their sysadmin questions on Stack Overflow and "just tag them, what's the harm"? Sure we do. But that doesn't fit our model of expert communities.

As for what should be moved, I support moving the true "expert" type questions that benefit from ninja-level, specialized pro skills.

It's the same rule I use when determining which database questions should be moved from stackoverflow to dba.stackexchange. Is this question "how do I create an index" or is it "Why can't I use newid() in a user-defined table-valued function?"

It's very simple:

• Server Fault is a community of professional (and wannabe professional) sysadmins

• security.se is a community of professional (and wannabe professional) security experts

It's all about asking questions tailored to, and appropriate for, the specific audience.

Do we have programmers who "wear multiple hats" and play a sysadmin role at a small company insisting that they should be able to ask their sysadmin questions on Stack Overflow and "just tag them, what's the harm"? Sure we do. But that doesn't fit our model of expert communities.

As for what should be moved, I support moving the true "expert" type questions that benefit from ninja-level, specialized pro skills.

It's the same rule I use when determining which database questions should be moved from stackoverflow to dba.stackexchange. Is this question "how do I create an index" or is it "Why can't I use newid() in a user-defined table-valued function?"

It's very simple:

• Server Fault is a community of professional (and wannabe professional) sysadmins

• security.se is a community of professional (and wannabe professional) security experts

It's all about asking questions tailored to, and appropriate for, the specific audience.

Do we have programmers who "wear multiple hats" and play a sysadmin role at a small company insisting that they should be able to ask their sysadmin questions on Stack Overflow and "just tag them, what's the harm"? Sure we do. But that doesn't fit our model of expert communities.

As for what should be moved, I support moving the true "expert" type questions that benefit from ninja-level, specialized pro skills.

It's the same rule I use when determining which database questions should be moved from stackoverflow to dba.stackexchange. Is this question "how do I create an index" or is it "Why can't I use newid() in a user-defined table-valued function?"