Timeline for Why was this XAMPP question closed and why are so many XAMPP questions being closed?
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| May 23, 2017 at 12:39 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Dec 29, 2012 at 21:53 | comment | added | EEAA | @martin's - you're taking things completely out of context. Please read my comments about XAMPP being developer tools. If you have something constructive to add here, please do so, we'd love to hear it. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 21:46 | comment | added | martin's | This guy seems to think the FAQ is important: meta.serverfault.com/questions/23/… and, funny enough, according to his not *AMPP questions ARE on-topic. Anyhow, I'm done. You can have your little club back. Continue as you were. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 20:51 | comment | added | sysadmin1138 Mod | @martin's You're laboring under a misconception that tripped us up. The FAQ is merely the welcome pamphlet we pass new people, it isn't the definitional document that sets in stone what's topical; that's according to StackExchange staff. We keep the definitional stuff in here: faq. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 20:05 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | @martin's: It's not nonsense - it's just not what we support. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 19:38 | comment | added | martin's | "Furthermore, you particular installation is on Windows Vista which is a client OS which is not an enironment we support as a server." That's brilliant. So, when I run, say, CentOS (or take your pick) inside a virtual machine running on, say 64 bit Vista, that is not "supported" here? That's nonsense. Again, is SF only about tools and software the moderators have blessed? It's OK if that is the case. Just please update the FAQ to reflect it so otherwise-intelligent people will leave you alone. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 19:28 | comment | added | martin's | Being that there are so many closed XAMPP/etc. questions on SF, either re-open them or make it clear that these questions do not belong here. How? Delete them. Remove the relevant tags. Update the FAQ to explicitly exclude that set of questions. Why am I worked-up about this? Because I got banned from posting for exactly that very-much-on-topic question and, in principle, it really bugs the hell out of me because the root cause of the closing of these questions is nothing short of elitism. The FAQ does not support the idea of rejecting content because the moderators don't like the tools. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 19:23 | comment | added | martin's | Just because moderators look down upon the stack and don't like it (as @sysadmin1138 revealed in his own answer) it doesn't mean that they don't belong here. The SF FAQ does not say that SF is for enterprise-class technologies. Not by any stretch of the imagination. It sure feels like you guys (moderators) are injecting your own bias into this and you are damaging SF in the process. I founded three companies, manage a bunch of developers, have over two dozen workstations and, yes, about eight "real" servers and yes, we use XAMPP for internal testing and development all over the place. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 19:21 | comment | added | martin's | Nice one. So these questions are bounced back and forth between SO, SF and SU and nobody wants them. They certainly don't belong in SU. Read the FAQ. They probably don't belong in SF either. Read the FAQ there. They squarely belong in SF. They are server questions. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 18:43 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | @sysadmin1138 Hm, I just did a few searches on mSO but couldn't find any discussion of this specific issue. Perhaps it's time to bring it up? | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 18:35 | comment | added | sysadmin1138 Mod | @MichaelHampton StackOverflow was cut off from migrating stuff to us since they have no understanding of how we define "...in a professional capacity". As far as they're concerned, these questions are below the threshold of topicality for SO and squarely in our's. This is why we send them to U&L or SU when we decide to send things. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 18:32 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | I'd be more than happy to migrate these questions, but SO has a disturbing tendency to reject them. I haven't yet figured out why, since they're pretty obviously on topic there. | |
| Dec 29, 2012 at 18:27 | history | edited | user9517Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 29, 2012 at 18:07 | history | answered | user9517Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |