Timeline for What's off-topic; anything in a home setting, or anything that was designed for home use?
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| Jan 24, 2012 at 9:46 | comment | added | Dan | @quux Can't argue with that! It's certainly not how I'd speak to a customer or user etc | |
| Jan 24, 2012 at 1:08 | comment | added | quux | I agree that I very much like the, erm ... 'professional bias' of the site and community. However I worry that this can at times exclude those who are curious about how professionals do their work. For instance: aspiring sysadmins. I most fear us propagating a BOFH-like attitude (I read Simon Travaglia as a way not to do sysadmin, though I giggle as I do this.) I am often worried by the sarcasm and glee with which 'kill it with fire' powers are wielded or asked for; I do not see this as professionalism. | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 12:31 | comment | added | Dan | I've upvoted this post because I do agree, but I also want to make clear that a real draw of this site was that it was specifically for professionals. It gives it a real edge over most other sites and it's why I spend my time here rather than SU. | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 12:18 | comment | added | user9517 | @dunxd: many (most) of the regulars in the VTC room have significant amounts of reputation and janitorial badges so they are answering and improving too. | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 12:08 | comment | added | Rob Moir | I have to say that I agree with this, or certainly most of this answer - and also with John's comment. I'd square that circle by saying that I don't mind us having fairly strict entry criteria (in some ways at least) but I wouldn't want to see us have overly pedantic criteria. | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 11:53 | comment | added | dunxd | +1 for "we decide to write long maze-like rule-sets that newbies must successfully navigate in order to have their question heard at all". I sometimes get the feeling that some people spend most of their time here hanging around in Vote to Close, looking to exercise what power they have, rather than their knowledge and intellects and answering, or improving, existing questions, or asking their own. | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 11:33 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | SF is, as far as I am aware, unique in Stack Exchange for the reason that it is intended ONLY for professionals. This is mainly due to the fact that there is in reality no amateur analog of a system administrator. SF's value to professionals is limited quite significantly by the large number of posts by non-professionals. We DO need as clear a line as we can manage. Sometimes that line will piss people off. That's unfortunate but necessary. | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 8:55 | comment | added | quux | Note for the person who down-voted this. One thing I did not make clear enough is, I do not think the syndrome I described has its roots in bad intentions. No, I think it has most or all roots in good intentions. But we know what the road to hell is paved with. | |
| Jan 23, 2012 at 8:32 | history | answered | quux | CC BY-SA 3.0 |