The discussion about more basic questions on Server Fault is currently going on at Perception of purpose . One complaint is about Server Fault being "Developer Support" which it really should not be. It is a place for professional system administrators to answer questions of other system administrators (regardless of level it seems so far). I am guessing that might have been Jeff's reason but I can't say for sure.

As far as people setting up MySQL on Super User they do it all the time. It is used for the backend of things like MythTV etc.

The discussion about more basic questions on Server Fault is currently going on at Perception of purpose . One complaint is about Server Fault being "Developer Support" which it really should not be. It is a place for professional system administrators to answer questions of other system administrators (regardless of level it seems so far). I am guessing that might have been Jeff's reason but I can't say for sure.

As far as people setting up MySQL on Super User they do it all the time. It is used for the backend of things like MythTV etc.