Timeline for Should questions that are sysadmin-relevant but not sysadmin-specific be closed as Off Topic?
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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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| Jun 4, 2012 at 19:41 | comment | added | Brent Pabst | @lain Forgive me, I have work to attend to during the day, however in my experience on all SE sites the COMMUNITY does a good job of down voting questions that aren't worthwhile. Again, it should be about providing knowledge to help better the community without having to worry about one individual making a decision that a particular post is two inches over a threshold. | |
| Jun 4, 2012 at 19:18 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | @BrentPabst: How would you know about how well we vote ? I've voted more times today that you have in 2 years ? | |
| Jun 4, 2012 at 16:31 | comment | added | Brent Pabst | @lain You must really like to work alone. The point of a community is to be inclusive of everyone regardless of skill level, yes there are bad questions, we do a good job of down voting those, but most are productive and have a point. | |
| Jun 4, 2012 at 14:50 | comment | added | Skyhawk | No one favors ceasing to close unanswerable questions, nor is anyone suggesting that greater effort should be expended in answering questions asked by obstinate fools. | |
| Jun 4, 2012 at 6:51 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | I would expect people who are professional to know how to research their problem, read error messages, logs etc and post the relevant portions. The people outside our audience just don't do this. | |
| Jun 3, 2012 at 23:02 | comment | added | Skyhawk |
By the way, in my role as a consultant, I routinely encounter "professional sysadmins" (that is, people who are paid exclusively to manage networks/systems at companies ranging from tens of employees to single-digit thousands of employees) who have very limited technical abilities by our standards. These are people who have never heard of xargs, have never used PowerShell, don't understand how stateful firewalls work, etc. There are not nearly enough well-qualified sysadmins in the marketplace for us to assume that all naive questions are necessarily unprofessional questions.
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| Jun 3, 2012 at 22:57 | comment | added | Skyhawk | Wildcard support was a separate question, sorry; added above. I voted to migrate my own question because I became convinced that school #2 (the one that you clearly subscribe to personally) had prevailed at SF. When @KyleBrandt raised this question in chat, expressing a preference for school #1, I decided that perhaps the jury was still out. | |
| Jun 3, 2012 at 21:01 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | Your answer doesn't mention anything about wildcard support or xargs btw. You also appear to have voted to close your own question (I don't know how you voted or why though) which is strange. Please remember that SF is meant to be for professional system admins etc. The pandering that we do is to those that clearly fall outside of that category. | |
| Jun 3, 2012 at 20:19 | comment | added | Skyhawk |
Of course, the question I posted about 7z was a classic example of "pandering" to entry-level sysadmins. I had something like a thousand files to unzip, and the compression method wasn't supported by unzip so I used 7z. No wildcard support, used xargs. Thought it was a question someone might have someday, so I posted it to SF with an answer. I really have a hard time believing that adding "long-tail" content that a novice sysadmin might search for someday is a terrible thing to do here.
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| Jun 3, 2012 at 16:56 | history | edited | Ward - Trying CodidactMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added link to voting
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| Jun 3, 2012 at 10:13 | history | answered | user9517Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |