Timeline for Our FAQ sucks (so let's fix it!)
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:39 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://stackoverflow.com/ with https://stackoverflow.com/
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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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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 29, 2012 at 22:55 | history | notice removed | sysadmin1138Mod | ||
| Jan 29, 2012 at 22:42 | history | notice added | sysadmin1138Mod | Historical significance | |
| Jan 29, 2012 at 22:42 | history | locked | sysadmin1138Mod | ||
| Jan 27, 2012 at 20:39 | comment | added | Rob Moir | I am a BOFH and I approve this posting. | |
| Jan 27, 2012 at 17:59 | history | edited | sysadmin1138Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Remove specificity in tag-lists. Less 'only these', more 'such as these', continue the 'tags-as-words' trend from the DBA FAQ.
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| Jan 27, 2012 at 15:53 | comment | added | cyberx86 | Some content suggestions: perhaps add a summary of the close reasons - for instance the FAQs don't seem to mention 'too localized'; some more clarification of what database questions are wanted here vs. on DBA (e.g. optimizing a MySQL configuration); there may be legitimate 'home settings' (e.g. telecommute) where someone has a problem with their home computer that prevents them from performing their 'professional' task; some more explicit mention of distributed systems/cloud computing/clusters/failover/amazon-ec2 - it is popular and only implied with the word 'Operations'. | |
| Jan 27, 2012 at 15:53 | comment | added | cyberx86 | Some phrasing suggestions (as a newer SF user): it doesn't say that other tags are allowed (i.e. you need an 'including' or an 'e.g.' somewhere); the statement 'If your question is about... and is not about...' isn't finished - previously there was '...then you're in the right place'; add (keep) the line (current FAQ) 'Please look around...'; clarify 'learning material' (e.g. books, manuals) - many questions link to procedures (or docs) which can be taken as 'learning material'; the phrasing "expert answers" may turn away some users - not every question requires an expert to answer. | |
| Jan 27, 2012 at 10:33 | comment | added | user11604 | @ChrisS, I don't disagree with you, but I'll refrain from discussing it here. Maybe if I've got some free time and I'm feeling brave enough, I'll raise a meta question on the subject. | |
| Jan 27, 2012 at 5:22 | history | edited | Shane Madden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
probably worthwhile to have this on there.. but I'm not terribly attached to it if anyone disagrees, and it lines up so nicely without it.. Thoughts?
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| Jan 27, 2012 at 4:13 | comment | added | Chris S Mod | @sysadmin1138 Cloud thinned. Not sure if I took too much, but it's definitely smaller now. @ Bryan Licensing has legal or monetary consequences if you're wrong, getting it wrong is somewhat easy, are you willing to be culpable? | |
| Jan 27, 2012 at 4:03 | history | edited | Chris SMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Thinning out the cloud; Cleanup the other
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| Jan 27, 2012 at 0:45 | comment | added | user11604 | Despite reading lots of discussions here regarding licensing being a taboo subject, I've yet to read a solid argument to support this reasoning, however being the minority voice, I'm happy to concede, but might I suggest that if licensing is going to be listed as being off topic in the FAQ, that the related tags are deleted. Their existence will surely only encourage people it's okay to ask licensing questions when they see several hundred questions tagged with it? | |
| Jan 26, 2012 at 23:59 | comment | added | sysadmin1138 Mod | My concern is that the tag-cloud is visually more busy in the SF-style than it is in the DBA-style. It may lead to more skipping like lists-of-more-than-5. | |
| Jan 26, 2012 at 23:49 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | Reading this again I'm just a bit concerned that it's mostly about what we don't want, which projects a lot of negativity. Yes, it's necessary but is there a way to perhaps soften the impact? | |
| Jan 25, 2012 at 16:42 | history | edited | Shane Madden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
consistent colons, caps fix
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| Jan 24, 2012 at 16:21 | comment | added | Chris S | @WesleyDavid tinyurl.com/6rgxujz | |
| Jan 24, 2012 at 15:46 | comment | added | Wesley | @ChrisS CAN BE HUGZ TIEM NAOW? | |
| Jan 24, 2012 at 14:40 | comment | added | Chris S | @WesleyDavid "and it is not about… Anything in a home setting. No exceptions." Good enough? | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 0:15 | history | edited | Chris S | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
General cleanup and Rule of 5 Items in a List, people will not read a list with more than 5 items
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| Jan 22, 2012 at 23:43 | history | edited | Ben Pilbrow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Fix the Exchange tag
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| Jan 22, 2012 at 22:39 | history | edited | Wesley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 22, 2012 at 22:31 | history | edited | Wesley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 20, 2012 at 19:36 | comment | added | Wesley | I see no mention of home use. I am deeply concerned. ಠ_ಠ | |
| Jan 20, 2012 at 18:07 | history | edited | Chris S | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 20, 2012 at 13:42 | comment | added | Chris S | @Dan, I feel pretty strongly that we need the word "Password" in there... People are lazy and have pretty loose interpretations of hacking and cracking. | |
| Jan 20, 2012 at 12:43 | history | edited | Dan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Reworded the hacking line
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| Jan 20, 2012 at 12:37 | history | edited | Dan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Made "cracking" more general and put "Hacking" first as this is common usage now
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| Jan 19, 2012 at 5:57 | history | edited | Chris S | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Gramma Fail - http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/commas.htm
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| Jan 18, 2012 at 23:27 | history | edited | Shane Madden | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
formatting tweaks, link to stackexchange.com/sites for sister sites link, no caps to tags, correct a couple tags (we don't want blacklisted ones on here!)
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| Jan 18, 2012 at 23:24 | history | edited | John Gardeniers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 18, 2012 at 22:06 | history | edited | Chris S | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Scripting...
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| Jan 18, 2012 at 21:38 | history | edited | Chris S | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 18, 2012 at 19:46 | history | edited | voretaq7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 17, 2012 at 17:07 | history | edited | Chris S | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Sister sites and BROKEN markdown
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| Jan 16, 2012 at 21:18 | comment | added | Starfish | Shane Madden, why did you roll back my edit? | |
| Jan 16, 2012 at 17:47 | comment | added | Sam Cogan Mod | @tombull89 personally I believe that scripting, that does sysadmin related stuff, belongs here, but I guess that really depends on the context, if it's "why doesn't my for loop work" I guess it's for SO. | |
| Jan 16, 2012 at 16:35 | history | edited | Chris S | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Modify link so Tom doesn't get referral credit
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| Jan 16, 2012 at 9:18 | history | edited | tombull89 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
inserted link to canoical answer answer rather than question
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| Jan 16, 2012 at 9:17 | comment | added | tombull89 | Also, make the "canoical questions list" link to the question answer, not the question itself. | |
| Jan 16, 2012 at 9:16 | comment | added | tombull89 | Where would scripting come under? is that, without question, suited to SO? | |
| Jan 16, 2012 at 1:51 | history | edited | Chris S | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2012 at 0:49 | history | notice removed | sysadmin1138Mod | ||
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| Jan 15, 2012 at 23:45 | history | notice added | sysadmin1138Mod | Content dispute | |
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| Jan 15, 2012 at 23:45 | comment | added | sysadmin1138 Mod | @voretaq7 When I have time, I'll take the next step. | |
| Jan 15, 2012 at 23:35 | comment | added | voretaq7 | I think we've got this pretty much in final form | |
| Jan 15, 2012 at 23:34 | vote | accept | voretaq7 | ||
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| Jan 15, 2012 at 23:34 | history | edited | voretaq7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Final cleanup
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| Jan 14, 2012 at 20:10 | history | rollback | Shane Madden |
Rollback to Revision 16
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| Jan 14, 2012 at 2:52 | history | edited | Starfish | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added link to recommended practices Q&A
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| Jan 14, 2012 at 1:04 | comment | added | pauska | I simply couldn't resist, sorry :D | |
| Jan 14, 2012 at 0:54 | history | edited | pauska | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
I just had to. Sorry.
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| Jan 13, 2012 at 10:33 | comment | added | Sven | @voretaq7: I agree. Instead of additional text at the end of the FAQ, we could think about writing a blog.sf post explaining all this and maybe integrate the core arguments from Jeffs shopping post and the canonical answers. This way, the FAQ stays at a reasonable length and we have a way to explain our restrictions in one place. Doing this explaining is important, I think, at least for the more reasonable users (and the others don't read the FAQ anyway). | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 8:23 | comment | added | Ward - Trying Codidact Mod | Added link to the meta.SF question about canonical Q/A pairs. Also edited that question to fit better with being linked from here (I think.) If it makes sense to link to that Q, some mod should strip the comments from it and the list answer. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 8:20 | history | edited | Ward - Trying CodidactMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added link to canonical questions/answers post on meta.SF
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| Jan 13, 2012 at 7:51 | history | edited | user9517 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 13, 2012 at 5:17 | comment | added | voretaq7 | Re: making the FAQ self-contained, I'm OK with links to stuff like the Lets Go Shopping blog or the licensing quesiton. We told them no - the link is there if they want to know why. Our FAQ is going to more than double in size with this edit, and we probably don't want to make it too big of a wall-o-text. | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 5:16 | comment | added | voretaq7 | I definitely like the canonical question link idea (go forth and add! :) | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 4:20 | comment | added | Ward - Trying Codidact Mod | Further to Iain's comment: how about a link somewhere to the canonical question list? | |
| Jan 13, 2012 at 4:19 | comment | added | Ward - Trying Codidact Mod | Similar to SvewW's comment, I'd like to have FAQ page be somewhat self-contained. So instead of (or maybe in addition to) a link to an external source (the blog about shopping or the licensing question), how about a "see below" link to a summary of that issue? | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 23:26 | comment | added | voretaq7 | @Andrew yeah that got slipped in there a while back -- we'll remove it at some point. Check the link :) | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 22:56 | comment | added | Andrew | @voretaq7 Cheese? | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 22:04 | history | edited | sysadmin1138Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2012 at 21:50 | history | edited | voretaq7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Minor tweaking
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| Jan 12, 2012 at 21:42 | comment | added | voretaq7 | Added storage -- Would one of the storage guys like to expand on this? | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 21:41 | history | edited | voretaq7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Storage needs love too!
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| Jan 12, 2012 at 21:36 | comment | added | voretaq7 | @Holocryptic I think we're pretty much agreed that circumvention is a no-no, that last bullet point covers it pretty succinctly. | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 21:08 | history | edited | John Gardeniers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2012 at 21:05 | history | edited | user9517 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2012 at 21:02 | history | edited | John Gardeniers | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2012 at 19:20 | comment | added | Holocryptic | If we're going to be modifying the FAQ, then it might be time to figure out what we're going to do about this as well | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 19:13 | comment | added | Sven |
For shopping, we can link to Jeffs blog post and for licensing to the canonical answer, but I think we should add some parts on the faq page explaining why we don't like career/salary and legal questions, reachable via # links from the above list and the FAQs toc.
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| Jan 12, 2012 at 19:04 | history | edited | Sven | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2012 at 18:14 | history | edited | sysadmin1138Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2012 at 18:08 | comment | added | voretaq7 | @Iain we have canonical answers for that :-D | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 17:56 | history | edited | sysadmin1138Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2012 at 17:55 | comment | added | user9517 | Shouldn't a FAQ really contain answers to, well, FAQs, so don't forget 'My script runs OK from the command line but not in cron', 'How do I redirect www.example.com to example.com'... ;) | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 17:53 | comment | added | voretaq7 | @sysadmin1138 or "Talk to a damn lawyer!" (especially if we're talking an Oracle license) | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 17:50 | history | edited | voretaq7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Taggity-tag-tag-tag-tags....TAGS!
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| Jan 12, 2012 at 17:49 | history | edited | sysadmin1138Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Provide redirection for the not-about points.
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| Jan 12, 2012 at 17:47 | history | edited | Sam CoganMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2012 at 17:37 | comment | added | sysadmin1138 Mod | @WesleyDavid They're the poster-case for 'Too Localized'. | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 17:32 | comment | added | Wesley | What do we think about questions concerning licensing of products? My pat response is "Call yo' vendor! Call yo' VAR! They true'en up e'rebody out her'" | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 17:20 | history | edited | Aaron | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 12, 2012 at 17:09 | comment | added | jcolebrand | Also suggest tags that most people would probably want to start with | |
| Jan 12, 2012 at 17:07 | comment | added | sysadmin1138 Mod | There. Have a ComWiki to work with. | |
| S Jan 12, 2012 at 17:07 | history | answered | sysadmin1138Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
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