Timeline for What are the reasons a question can/should get an upvote or downvote on Serverfault?
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| Mar 9, 2013 at 4:18 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/ServerFault/status/310243053661204481 | ||
| Mar 4, 2013 at 16:59 | comment | added | glenstorey | @ChrisS In my defence I am the network admin of the school - we have between 200 and 500 connected devices at any point. I'm not a Network Professional, but I'm dealing with networking everyday. Thanks for the correction re: SF/SO; my mistake | |
| Mar 4, 2013 at 14:39 | comment | added | makerofthings7 | I just posted a "answer your own question" type of post The intent is to share information in the context of performance troubleshooting. I never heard of fltmc before and discovered it while troubleshooting Exchange and Blackberry servers yesterday. I wonder how the +- votes will go on that. | |
| Mar 4, 2013 at 14:25 | comment | added | Chris S Mod | @glenstorey We really try to judge the "Professional IT" quality of a Question on the content of the question. Quickly skimming your profile: You're a Teacher who does some Web Development - you are 100% outside the target audience we're trying to reach. I am not trying to imply that we don't care about your problems - problems on SF have to live up to a Professional Quality that is expected of a System Administrator (et al). Also SF is NOT part of SO; SF and SO are part of Stack Exchange. | |
| Mar 4, 2013 at 8:20 | comment | added | Rob Moir | @glenstorey I'd agree - and I suggest that most of the regulars who are engaged in the community usually do comment. We respect others and want the community to grow. But its a central pillar of the SO sites that one isn't obliged to do so. Respect is a two way street as well, so a question that's especially egregious in its lack of effort might get short shrift here because that's all it deserves. As I've already said, it's not that this site is 'unfriendly', rather that it expects certain standards from its friends. | |
| Mar 4, 2013 at 7:55 | comment | added | glenstorey | Personally, I've found SF one of the less amicable SO sites that I use. I know friendliness isn't the goal, but it helps create a solid community and userbase. I understand from reading this that this is a professional community but I think regular users need to make some effort in steering people toward the type of questions they want, rather than simply down voting. Comments can be provided in a way that helps people ask better questions, rather than just encouraging them to leave the community. | |
| Mar 4, 2013 at 6:46 | answer | added | Stefan Lasiewski | timeline score: 6 | |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 22:14 | comment | added | MDMarra | A simple question is different than a question where the asker put, literally, no research into solving him or herself. | |
| Mar 3, 2013 at 22:01 | comment | added | makerofthings7 | What is the expected breadth of expertise of a professional? I don't think it's uncommon for an Exchange admin to ask dumb questions about networking or vice versa. Part of being a "Professional" IMHO is to recognize that each person has something unique to contribute in their subject matter of expertise. Not much "expertise" is universal, and therefore simple questions (and nieve misunderstandings) that aren't interesting shouldn't be downvoted just because the reader is bored. It should closed as a dupe or answered. | |
| Mar 2, 2013 at 13:20 | answer | added | the-wabbit | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 2, 2013 at 11:47 | answer | added | Rob Moir | timeline score: 12 | |
| Mar 2, 2013 at 3:38 | comment | added | MDMarra | I'll note that as a site targeted at professionals, we fully expect you to have put some effort into solving your problem before you come here. We also expect you to have done some research before you come here. Personally, I love helping people that have interesting problems or weird edge cases. What I don't like is someone's basic legwork for them (looking through logs when they haven't yet, looking for knowledge base articles for them). If a question is very basic or poorly explained and the OP shows no proof of trying to resolve the issue on their own, then I'm highly likely to downvote it | |
| Mar 1, 2013 at 20:50 | answer | added | Ward - Trying CodidactMod | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 1, 2013 at 18:21 | answer | added | user9517Mod | timeline score: 16 | |
| Mar 1, 2013 at 18:08 | history | edited | makerofthings7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 1, 2013 at 18:03 | history | asked | makerofthings7 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |