Timeline for Where can I ask questions that aren't IT questions?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:14 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://serverfault.com/ with https://serverfault.com/
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| Sep 12, 2011 at 6:01 | history | migrated | from serverfault.com (revisions) | ||
| Jun 2, 2009 at 22:59 | comment | added | Matt Simmons | Whether or not that question actually addressed an issue experienced by the user or the person asking the question was performing desktop support, not IT administration. Since Server Fault exists to cater to IT administrators, it was off topic. Yes it is a fine line, but not that fine. Don't you get upset when people ask you to fix their VCRs because you're a "computer guy"? | |
| May 21, 2009 at 16:58 | comment | added | Zack Peterson | Thank you for answering, but that sounds to me like the fix is to find and replace "my" with "this user's". Or, maybe just tweak the title to sound more encyclopedic: Change "Why won't Windows allow my monitor's native resolution?" to "Force native resolution to Non-PnP monitor in Windows." | |
| May 21, 2009 at 15:48 | comment | added | Adam Davis | It's a fine distinction, and over time we'll gain many more 3k+ editors than can vote to close and open questions, and this line will shift. There will be many comparable questions that will remain open and many others that will be closed, and it will always be a source of friction. But this website isn't meant to cater to every computer and hardware problem - only those that really only exist in, or can best be solved in, the IT and sysadmin domain. | |
| May 21, 2009 at 15:44 | comment | added | Adam Davis | Hardware and software problems on a single case basis are not particularly sysadmin or IT related. If you had 500 new computers and 500 monitors and they were not compatible but should be, then it might be applicable, but in your case you have hardware that used to work, nothing changed in your setup, and now doesn't work. It's not a question that requires sysadmin or IT expertise - just computer repair expertise. While the skills needed overlap, this site is focused on those questions that are explicitly and wholly within the IT and sysadmin domain. | |
| May 21, 2009 at 15:18 | history | answered | Zack Peterson | CC BY-SA 2.5 |