Timeline for Improving questions vs. teaching new users how to use the site?
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| Aug 8, 2013 at 1:30 | vote | accept | Andrew B | ||
| Apr 12, 2013 at 23:06 | comment | added | Andrew B | I think the right wording is unmanaged development environments. Yes, there's always going to be wriggle room around the wording, but it more clearly conveys the intent. | |
| Apr 12, 2013 at 10:36 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | @MarkHenderson: For me they would fall outside of a developer environment but YMMV. For a site that is 4 years old it really does amaze/concern me how ill defined our scope is and the amount of drama that causes. | |
| Apr 12, 2013 at 9:00 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | @michael - since you can edit out the part about where it's installed to make it on topic..? | |
| Apr 12, 2013 at 8:59 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | @iain - so we don't answer questions about staging environments, or testing systems, or software using trial keys? | |
| Apr 12, 2013 at 7:23 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | Since when do we support developers' development tools on their workstations? | |
| Apr 12, 2013 at 6:46 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | @MarkHenderson: Have you read the tour page ? | |
| Apr 12, 2013 at 3:52 | comment | added | Mark Henderson Mod | @MichaelHampton - since when did we only support systems that are in production? | |
| Apr 12, 2013 at 0:37 | comment | added | Michael Hampton | This question didn't fail the "home user" test, it failed the "development environment" test. | |
| Apr 11, 2013 at 13:40 | comment | added | gWaldo | I agree that in most cases (such as your example) the "at home" parameter is irrelevant, but I seem to recall that mentioning a non-work setting was just about a guarantee that your question would be shunted off to SU (regardless of you having problems with mounting your iSCSI SAN in KVM at home)... Hey, if this is the guideline now, I'm a happy guy. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 6:07 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | Mark pretty much hit all the highlights. The one thing I'd add is that if the person is not "acting professionally" I'm more inclined to shoot the question in the head. One can administer a home server in a professional manner and in those cases the "home" aspects that otherwise render it off-topic are not really relevant and I'd let it live. On the other hand sometimes it's obvious we're talking about something that's NOT professional even though the environment might be ("Help me set up a teamspeak server for my buddies on this box I put in my company's Rackspace cage!") | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 2:15 | comment | added | Andrew B | Many of us are trying to find that sweet spot between helpful and critical, and the insight definitely helps. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 1:18 | comment | added | jscott | Hate to post a "Thank you" comment, but I appreciate your candor with this. It seems far easier to demand "no exceptions" rules for what is/isn't off topic, rather than to find value in a potentially "good" question and help improve it. | |
| Apr 10, 2013 at 1:01 | history | edited | Mark HendersonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 10, 2013 at 0:55 | history | answered | Mark HendersonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |