Timeline for Do we need a long-form FAQ?
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| Jan 3, 2013 at 9:12 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | I'd rather not commit too heavily on the topic of Windows and professionalism but I am very happy that I started a job yesterday where I will be moving away from Microsoft to Linux and other Open Source products. I haven't been so happy to go to work for a long time. | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 17:02 | comment | added | gWaldo | Answer one canonical "why did my [W/X/M]AMP server get hacked" question, and mark the rest as duplicates. But I absolutely think that it is the wrong thing to close "how do I do [x] in [W/X/M]AMP" out-of-hand. | |
| Jan 2, 2013 at 16:59 | comment | added | gWaldo | I think that the canonical question is a good idea (serverfault.com/questions/453617/why-not-use-a-wamp-stack), but I wholeheartedly but respectfully disagree with @JohnGardeniers - our place in this community is not to determine what tools, install methods, etc are "professional" and are not. Many do/have hold the opinion that using Windows is cause to be called "unprofessional" as a SysAd. This is a question-and-answer site; let people ask questions. If nobody wants to answer the question, it'll fall off the grid, but right now we are being hostile to the potential new users. | |
| Jan 1, 2013 at 18:38 | comment | added | tombull89 | Maybe we could have one canonical question about *AMP installers, and why they are not a good idea and pros/cons. That could cut down on the "i want to ask WAMP questions" crew. *AMP packages are notoriously insecure and a lot of questions would crop up about them being compromised. | |
| Dec 31, 2012 at 3:30 | comment | added | Magellan | Uh, yeah. In the name of all that's right and sane, just say NO to end-user cPanel questions. | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 22:51 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | It is not elitism to expect a professional to have and apply a professional attitude. Using single install *AMP is highly unprofessional and therefore cannot be considered to fit within the scope of SF. Professionalism is a state of mind, not a pay packet. We all do unprofessional things from time to time but most of us wouldn't ask questions about it on SF. | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 21:10 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | No, No, No, a thousand times No! If you open this sluice then you might as well open the flood-gates to the rest of the crap from the internet. *AMP one click stuff on client OSes are developer tools and are perfectly on topic for SO just like Visual Studio, Eclipse etc. | |
| Dec 30, 2012 at 13:40 | history | answered | gWaldo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |