Timeline for Where to ask complex but home network questions?
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| Dec 14, 2011 at 8:31 | comment | added | Rob Moir | @TheLQ I think the answer to "why are you deploying to X" is to lie. "We're a small charitable institution and I know this isn't ideal but its all we can afford". When we ask "Why are you doing Y" then sometimes, yes, we're incredulous that someone's using an unexpanded VIC 20 as a SAN controller in what's supposed to be a business environment, sure, but sometimes we just need better context to answer a question properly. | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 20:30 | comment | added | voretaq7 | @TheLQ - What Zoredache said is pretty much the general case when we ask "WHY (in the name of everything unholy and wrong in the world of the interwebs) are you doing that?" -- If we can't fathom a reason we usually won't help you do something that violates our instincts of what's good and right on a network. It's our way of avoiding the subsequent "So I did X like you guys said, and now my datacenter is infested with dragons! HALP!" follow-up questions :-) | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 20:08 | comment | added | Zoredache | @TheLQ, when someone is questioning you like that it is frequently because you are doing something unusual/wrong. If your question is too rigid, then it may not be obvious to the commenter that you would be interested in seeing answers about how to do things the 'right way'. If a person asks, a question like that, then you should review your question, and see if you have express any invalid constraints/assumptions, and change them. | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 20:04 | comment | added | MDMarra | @TheLQ That's the risk you take trying to sneak one through. It's very clear what our faq allows. If you try to circumvent it, you have to expect your question will be closed. | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 19:59 | comment | added | TheLQ | Leaving out the home part might work, but sometimes questions come up like: Why are you doing this? Where is this again? What did you say this server product was running on? Why are you deploying to X? | |
| Dec 13, 2011 at 19:53 | history | answered | MDMarra | CC BY-SA 3.0 |