Timeline for Where to ask complex but home network questions?
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| Jul 27, 2012 at 17:49 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | I work from home. What am I supposed to do?! | |
| Apr 26, 2012 at 22:46 | comment | added | user11604 | Brilliant question; Favourited, as I'd like to think a solution to the issues raised here might get resolved one day. - It gets even more complicated if you want to ask a question about an Ubuntu server? You have a choice of three out of four possible SE sites: ubuntu, unix, serverfault (professional use) or superuser (home use)? There is also a very fine line between SO and SF in a some cases, e.g. scripting could be equally valid on either site. I've occasionally fogged over some details that might make the question appear off topic, so I can post where I think I'd get the best response. | |
| Apr 25, 2012 at 11:51 | answer | added | Richard Gadsden | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 8, 2012 at 14:25 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/ServerFault/status/156018609674653696 | ||
| Dec 16, 2011 at 11:36 | answer | added | Journeyman Geek | timeline score: 1 | |
| Dec 16, 2011 at 11:20 | comment | added | Journeyman Geek | just out of curiosity, which question, specifically? | |
| Dec 15, 2011 at 1:24 | comment | added | Chris S | I'm with Rob, if you're taking a business class approach to the situation, I don't care if it's at home or in a business. But to keep the "I can haz Intranetz" people out we really can't let up on the "No Home" verbiage. | |
| Dec 14, 2011 at 8:53 | comment | added | Rob Moir | A big part of the issue here, as @Jscott says, is that in a business environment you are expected to have at least skimmed the manual and the support website, and a lot of home networking questions can be summed up as "I can haz Internet?" Not all of them of course, but enough to cause our apathy for "home network" questions. Is there a case to be made that a "home network" and a "business class network that just happens to be in a home" are different things? Or would that just lead to more confusion? | |
| Dec 14, 2011 at 1:47 | answer | added | John Gardeniers | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 20:28 | answer | added | voretaq7 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 20:27 | comment | added | Chris S | Super User is in a bit of a bind. They have some experts, but breadth of topics is so wide they'll have a hard time ever getting experts enough to answer all the questions that are on-topic there. For Bind you can can on Unix & Linux and you're likely to get an answer. But there will be Questions where you're best bet right now (in my opinion) is simply to lie (or lie by omission) about the situation and put it on sites where it's OT like Server Fault. | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 20:27 | comment | added | jscott | When I see "home" in a question, yes, I automatically think "OT for SF" - Mainly because the expectation [on SF] includes actually reading the mega-78-page-manual which you mention. From some reason "home users" are not always comfortable with this method of problem solving. As a sysadmin, you tend to RTFM, a lot, some times without finding the answer. | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 20:25 | answer | added | random | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 20:03 | answer | added | sysadmin1138Mod | timeline score: 6 | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 19:53 | answer | added | MDMarra | timeline score: 9 | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 19:39 | history | asked | TheLQ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |