Timeline for What's wrong with my question concerning VMware?
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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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| Oct 16, 2013 at 16:14 | comment | added | Jonesome Reinstate Monica | "However, you did get an answer here, so really that's the main goal, right?" And that is a clue that the question is good and that it belongs here. The whole thread is completely at home here, is clearly written, and gets to a happy ending. That is what SF is for, right? (So why should it get closed?) | |
| Feb 1, 2012 at 3:47 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @maaartinus, even if the question was regarding a home user you are supporting in a professional capacity it still fails the "Desktop PCs that you maintain in the workplace" criteria. | |
| Feb 1, 2012 at 2:26 | vote | accept | maaartinus | ||
| Feb 1, 2012 at 2:25 | comment | added | maaartinus | Many thanks to Mark Henderson. @Zoredache: But the niches/purposes are greatly overlapping, the distinction unclear, and the sheer amount of closed/moved question proves it. Yahoo Answers? Are you kidding? Their problem is not having everything in one place, their problems are countless, especially having no tags and no voting. A sort of super-tag could IMHO do here all the needed separation much better than using different URL and different look-and-feel, but this is another discussion. | |
| Feb 1, 2012 at 2:18 | comment | added | Zypher Mod | @maaartinus two things, one there are only 92 questions tagged 'vmware-player', two you like a lot of people miss a very important character in the Desktop PC part "Desktop PC->s<- ..." as in multiple PCs, more than one | |
| Feb 1, 2012 at 1:49 | comment | added | Zoredache | The sites withing the stackexchange network are aimed at being for a particular niche/purpose. serverfault is primarily focused questions related to supporting medium/large sized networks, though some small business stuff gets through as well. If you don't like how topics are broken up, may I point you at Yahoo Answers as an example of why having everything in one places is bad. | |
| Feb 1, 2012 at 1:48 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | @maaartinus - well, VMWare Player is not for business use and it has no place running the kinds of services that we help with on this site. If you're a pro helping a home user, Super User is your friend. If you had replaced "player" with "workstation" it may have been deemed on-topic, but the answers you received may very well have not worked with player. If you did have a written agreement, well, ignore my fourth point, but the question would still be off-topic. As I said, the FAQ is really, really being re-worked to try and avoid these sorts of conflicts in the future, so I can only aplogise. | |
| Feb 1, 2012 at 1:41 | comment | added | maaartinus | +1 Nice answer... so the guys derived from the player being intended for non-commercial use that I am a home-user and that's the reason for closing. But wait... what if I was a support professional helping some home user? What if I haven't mentioned "player" in my question? What if I had such a written agreement? No matter what, this is the most ridiculous criterion I've ever heard of. I understand that the problems of professionals and home users differ, but IMHO the distinction is too blurred and makes searching for relevant information harder rather than easier. | |
| Feb 1, 2012 at 1:24 | history | answered | Mark HendersonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |