Timeline for Possible to search sister SE sites before posting a question?
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| Apr 4, 2013 at 16:37 | comment | added | Zoredache | stackexchange.com/search searches all Stack Exchange sites. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 22:43 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | @user14645 The larger SE feature tracking scheme (so far as it exists) would be meta.stackoverflow.com, and unfortunately, as mentioned, they don't much care to do anything about this. I file it under the accept-those-things-you-cannot-change heading. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 22:34 | answer | added | voretaq7Mod | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 22:33 | answer | added | Michael Hampton | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 22:23 | comment | added | user14645 | @HopelessN00b Hmmm... but if I read the site FAQ: "... Super User for general Networking,". So, SuperUser, StackOverflow, ServerFault? And it turned out that the right (existing) answer was on Webmasters. I take your point. Its a growing problem though. Isn't there a larger SE feature request tracking scheme? | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 22:17 | history | edited | user14645 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
About page (not the FAQ), was mislead me.
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| Apr 2, 2013 at 22:16 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | @user14645 I don't (totally) disagree with you... this is a side effect of SE fragmentation, but that's just not gonna change, and isn't something the SE team has been particularly interested in addressing historically. And, again, network-wide meta topics belong on meta.stackoverflow.com, because that's where the people who can actually do anything about it are most active (by a massive margin). | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 22:13 | comment | added | user14645 | @Michael Hampton Thanks for answering my original question though. Was helpful. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 22:13 | comment | added | user14645 | Well maybe. I don't mind the details of how the question got closed so much, but I think my use case is common (because of the clear overlap between the SE sites), and some features along the lines of the ones I added would help users and moderators (or whomever flags stuff as off-topic). | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 22:04 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | No they didn't. Again, no moderators touched your question, though one did comment on it. You can recognize a moderator by the diamond symbol next to their name. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 22:02 | comment | added | user14645 | @Michael Hampton ... well ... they kinda did? Didn't they? The moderators said it was off-topic and zapped it. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 21:57 | comment | added | user14645 | My point is: i) there's no place to grumble (at the question) about whether its off-topic or not, ii) I don't think I could have reasonably found the right non-off-topic forum without doing a fair bit of work, iii) the forum's about page led me to believe this was the right place. I'm bringing it up because I've run into this several times despite making a best honest effort to ask sensible questions in the right places. I think its solvable in the website's design. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 21:54 | comment | added | user14645 | @r.tanner.f I'm not upset. I think the answers were helpful and great, but the SE UX could have lead to a happier place for sure. I read the about page for Server Fault - it says its "for professional system and network administrators". I also found lots of questions tagged "domain-registration", and no obvious answer to my question. So it seemed a good place to post it. So, I'm a little surprised when its flagged as off-topic. (Actually, thinking about it, I still don't understand why its off-topic.) | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 21:48 | comment | added | user14645 | @HopelessN00b I think my question was a reasonable one for at least one SE site, and I agree to the people who kindly replied, that the question was a duplicate. Without visiting 4 separate SE sites, I couldn't have found it. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 21:47 | comment | added | rtf | I don't really understand why you're upset. You received no downvotes and were linked to a great answer for your question. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 21:36 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | No moderator smacked down your question. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 21:35 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | This belongs on meta.stackoverflow.com ... and probably won't receive a warm reception there, FYI. | |
| Apr 2, 2013 at 21:17 | history | edited | user14645 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 2, 2013 at 21:08 | history | asked | user14645 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |