Timeline for Limiting membership
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| Jan 4, 2013 at 19:12 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | Re: "professional newbies", it was decided long ago that questions of that sort are ON Topic for Server Fault, as we're essentially an educational resource. Many of these folks may be doing grossly stupid "home-y" things in a production environment and will balk when the answer is "Don't do that - spend money on the right solution!", but our goal is to provide high-quality professional answers, not to make everyone feel good about bad infrastructure choices. Satisfaction not guaranteed, offer void where permitted, etc. :-) | |
| Jan 4, 2013 at 19:10 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | The reason for the "home setting" exclusion is to avoid all the people doing grossly stupid things in their living rooms and expecting the all-knowing sysadmins to just make their shit work. We (or at least I) don't want those questions. The generally accepted thing to do with a "Home Question" that otherwise meets our quality standard (and are of use to the community) is to edit out the "Home" bits. This is a double-standard, but the alternative is that those home users scream and cry and we've got nothing authoritative to point them to when we tell them to go to SuperUser. | |
| Jan 4, 2013 at 17:29 | comment | added | wfaulk | @voretaq7: But if a home user doesn't specify 'home', there's no way for us to know, nor, IMO, should we care, if it's still a question of use to the community. And there are professional newbies. Are they to be excluded from asking questions? | |
| Jan 4, 2013 at 16:23 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod |
@wfaulk in a maintainable manner doesn't pass muster. Home use questions are still explicitly excluded, even if your home is run like a tier 1 datacenter, and a newbie's idea of maintainable may be plain wrong. There is a (social) barrier to entry, it's just not one that can be codified as "member of professional organization", "licensed professional", etc. Our use of for Information Technology professionals and in a professional capacity are essentially a catch-all: there's probably a better way to phrase it, but we haven't found it yet.
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| Jan 4, 2013 at 9:46 | answer | added | Rob Moir | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 20:25 | comment | added | wfaulk | I think that some of the answers have pointed out that ServerFault is not for professional sysadmins. It's more that the questions have an implied preface of "Assuming I want to accomplish this in a maintainable manner …". Does that sound right? I guess what this is now pointing out to me is that "for professional systems administrators" doesn't really mean what we want it to mean. | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 20:18 | answer | added | Ward - Trying CodidactMod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 19:04 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | Well we'd prefer the bad ones stick around and read the questions/answers so they don't stay bad.... | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 19:00 | comment | added | Alex | If you're a not a professional sysadmin, or you are a bad one, you'll have a hard time gaining karma. Therefore excluding yourself naturally. | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 18:59 | answer | added | voretaq7Mod | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jan 3, 2013 at 18:40 | history | asked | wfaulk | CC BY-SA 3.0 |