Timeline for Perception of purpose
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:14 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jul 25, 2010 at 18:53 | comment | added | John Gardeniers | @Ward, network certainly is an appropriate subject for SF. The IT professionals for who Server Fault exists would not ask a question such as the one you linked to because it is required knowledge for any of us working in any part of the industry. Little Freddy wanting to network his Xbox and his sister's Mac is not the same thing as a professional trying to work out some tricky VLAN configuration, yet both are networking questions. One is SF material, one is not. | |
| Jul 24, 2010 at 17:47 | comment | added | Warner | Maybe you just like networking, Ward. =) | |
| Jul 24, 2010 at 14:44 | comment | added | Andrew | @Kyle I think so - as John Gardeniers said meta.serverfault.com/questions/465/perception-of-purpose/…, "where it is clear that the poster is NOT an IT professional" gives a perception of "person was too lazy to use a search engine and wants to be spoon fed". (Still can't get markup to work in comments.) Ok, so difference between "read a book" and "here's the answer, btw. good books are XYZ" is that you'll give the second in answer to a question "I've been trying to work out X", the first in answer to "what is an X and how does it work". | |
| Jul 24, 2010 at 14:15 | comment | added | Kyle Brandt | @Andrew: I don't think it really is an acceptable answer -- it feels like RTF(antastic)M to me. I however do think answering their question followed by a specific book recommendation or recommendations is. Struggling to articulate what makes those two approaches so fundamentally different at this moment ... but does that make sense? | |
| Jul 24, 2010 at 14:06 | comment | added | Andrew | There's a few of those sort of questions going around at the moment. Is "have you tried reading a book on <topic>" an acceptable answer for some of the "basic" stuff? | |
| Jul 24, 2010 at 13:16 | comment | added | Kyle Brandt | @Ward: See my comment above regarding the first question you posted... An edit of the question might have improved it a lot... | |
| Jul 24, 2010 at 5:18 | history | answered | Ward - Trying CodidactMod | CC BY-SA 2.5 |