Timeline for Can we do anything to change the dynamic of the site?
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| May 17, 2013 at 15:28 | comment | added | Michael Hampton |
Yep. And... "audience": "professional system and network administrators",
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| May 17, 2013 at 15:25 | comment | added | Rachel |
@MichaelHampton From what I learned when trying to modify the Workplace description, moderators can modify the top of the /About and /FAQ pages, and SE modifies 3 fields in the database about the site (Name, Topic, and Audience) that propagate a bunch of other descriptive stuff about the site. (And MDMarra, I'm glad you didn't cringe at the sight of me ;))
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| May 17, 2013 at 15:16 | comment | added | MDMarra | Also, for what it's worth, I immediately recognized your user name and avatar and didn't cringe, so you specifically aren't part of my rant earlier :) | |
| May 17, 2013 at 15:15 | comment | added | Michael Hampton |
Some side notes: The FAQ and About page are indeed out of sync and should be brought into sync. The How to Ask text is a hard-coded Is your question about %s? where %s is a site-specific string.
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| May 17, 2013 at 15:15 | comment | added | MDMarra |
and am probably one of those people you talk about that are not really wanted here. I don't want my post to sound like I want a "no devs allowed" club. In fact, some of the smarted people on this site are or were primarily developers. The problem is that most people with background that is primarily development aren't equipped to ask a good, interesting, on-topic question here any more than I'm qualified to ask an intelligent question about software development. The difference is that SF is only for professionals and SO is for amateurs and pros.
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| May 17, 2013 at 15:15 | comment | added | Chris S Mod | SysAdmin is a generic term, replacing "Operator" (long history you don't want to know). Network, Database, Security, Application, and Infrastructure Engineers (builds) and Administrator (maintains) are all specializations of SysAdmin so to say. Help Desk are also "allowed" here. When we tried to put all the pertinent details in the FAQ it turned into an encyclopedia article, so it got trimmed back to what it is now... You're right that it needs some help. | |
| May 17, 2013 at 15:12 | comment | added | Dan | @Rachel Superb post, thanks for sharing. I completely agree | |
| May 17, 2013 at 15:12 | comment | added | Jenny D | That's both very well put and very right. | |
| May 17, 2013 at 15:10 | comment | added | Rachel | @Adrian I have no idea what happened last year, however if your site really is for sysadmins only then that really needs to be spelled out in the FAQ, and I see no reason why SE would deny such a change. We actually made a reverse change on the Workplace (specifying the topic instead of the audience in the FAQ), and it even got approved by Jeff himself. However if SE was denying your site changing to sysadmins only, then I don't think there's much the community can do about it, as Programmers showed me. | |
| May 17, 2013 at 15:06 | comment | added | Magellan | This is my opinion, of course, but that's one of the issues that we tried to address with last year's FAQ revision. Unfortunately, those revisions were denied by Corporate and we're stuck with referring people to some meta post instead of a clearly-defined FAQ page. | |
| May 17, 2013 at 14:58 | history | answered | Rachel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |