Timeline for Interpretation of Off Topic
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:14 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.serverfault.com/ with https://meta.serverfault.com/
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 28, 2013 at 4:31 | answer | added | Michael HamptonMod | timeline score: 2 | |
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| Jun 27, 2013 at 20:14 | history | edited | voretaq7Mod |
Tag for Help Center & mark Completed since our resident hedgehog sync'd the wording up.
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| Apr 18, 2013 at 22:20 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/ServerFault/status/325010904326479873 | ||
| Apr 12, 2013 at 5:14 | answer | added | Andrew | timeline score: 3 | |
| Apr 11, 2013 at 11:10 | answer | added | user9517Mod | timeline score: 7 | |
| Apr 11, 2013 at 11:09 | answer | added | user11604 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Apr 11, 2013 at 10:58 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | @Bryan: The about page is new this year Jan 2013 and since April 2013 new players are shown a banner meta.stackexchange.com/questions/59445/… refers. | |
| Apr 11, 2013 at 10:53 | comment | added | user11604 | ...if we're saying "your question is off topic, read the FAQ", the FAQ shouldn't conflict with this, which it currently does. | |
| Apr 11, 2013 at 10:51 | comment | added | user11604 | @Iain, I joined almost 4 years ago, and whilst I don't remember being directed to the about page at the time (I might have been, but honestly can't remember), the number of questions that are closed as off topic, for 'Anything in a development environment' with a reference to the FAQ, is I guess around 30-40% of the close votes in the review queue. The FAQ really should have those three extra words added IMHO. It's not like we're talking about the odd question every now and again. It's a large number of questions each day. | |
| Apr 11, 2013 at 10:45 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | @Bryan: I believe that new users get directed to the tour page in an attempt to educate them about the way that SE in general and SF in particular operate but as ever you can lead ... | |
| Apr 11, 2013 at 10:43 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | @Bryan: When we tried to put lots of extra nuance in the faq we got told by the community team that that was not the purpose of the faq and that questions tagged faq on meta was the way to expand on the faq. | |
| Apr 11, 2013 at 10:40 | comment | added | user11604 |
@Iain, thanks for highlighting the about link, it does categorically state Anything in a home or development environment, but this is not reflected in the FAQ, which is where we refer people to when they ask off topic questions, hence my misunderstanding. The FAQ doesn't actually conflict with about, but it's lacking detail, and the detail is better suited to the FAQ. So as per my closing statement, "Should the FAQ be clarified", I believe it should be, even if just to stop people like myself creating duplicate meta questions?
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| Apr 11, 2013 at 10:06 | comment | added | user9517 Mod | Stackoverflow's faq puts this kind of developer environment explicitly within their bailiwick and they actively support the MS equivalent stack. Our tour says don't ask... . We've been round this loop before too meta.serverfault.com/questions/4087/… was the latest. xamp/wamp/mamp stacks et al are not topical for us and are generally poor quality questions too. | |
| Apr 11, 2013 at 9:39 | comment | added | user11604 | @tombull89, "Highly unsuited to production", yes, but that doesn't make it unsuitable to being used in a professional capacity, for instance by a developer for testing or development, so it's still on topic as per the FAQ if somebody is having to support it. | |
| Apr 11, 2013 at 9:23 | comment | added | tombull89 | Please note: it's not the WAMP/LAMP/MAMP questions that SF doesn't like, it's the pre-compired stacks such as those found at BitNami and WAMPServer.com. The pre-compiled built versions have low (or no) default security settings and are highly, highly unsuited to production. | |
| Apr 11, 2013 at 9:09 | history | asked | user11604 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |