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We tried to come up with something better before. The big problem is that Server Fault's audience is:

[ Senior | Junior ] ( System[s] | Network | Database | Security | Application | Infrastructure ) ( Engineers | Administrators | Technicians | Operators )

That's 84 titles if you want to enumerate all of them. And those are just the common titles. We could break out DNS Administrators or IDSN/ATM Engineers or who knows what else.

I'm all for this ideas, if we can come up with a single sentence that conveys the audience more accurately than the current one.

Perhaps the best explanation I remember seeing was one dividing computer usage into "Creation", "Maintenance", and "Usage" (SO, SF, and SU respectively). But now there's dozens of SE sites that carve out bits and pieces, and the Dunning-Kruger effect means many (most?) people can't actually place themselves in one of those three categories accurately (and it's worse with the zillion SE sites).

History (in case you hate your eyeballs that much):

We tried to come up with something better before. The big problem is that Server Fault's audience is:

[ Senior | Junior ] ( System[s] | Network | Database | Security | Application | Infrastructure ) ( Engineers | Administrators | Technicians | Operators )

That's 84 titles if you want to enumerate all of them. And those are just the common titles. We could break out DNS Administrators or IDSN/ATM Engineers or who knows what else.

I'm all for this ideas, if we can come up with a single sentence that conveys the audience more accurately than the current one.

Perhaps the best explanation I remember seeing was one dividing computer usage into "Creation", "Maintenance", and "Usage" (SO, SF, and SU respectively). But now there's dozens of SE sites that carve out bits and pieces, and the Dunning-Kruger effect means many (most?) people can't actually place themselves in one of those three categories accurately (and it's worse with the zillion SE sites).

History (in case you hate your eyeballs that much):

We tried to come up with something better before. The big problem is that Server Fault's audience is:

[ Senior | Junior ] ( System[s] | Network | Database | Security | Application | Infrastructure ) ( Engineers | Administrators | Technicians | Operators )

That's 84 titles if you want to enumerate all of them. And those are just the common titles. We could break out DNS Administrators or IDSN/ATM Engineers or who knows what else.

I'm all for this ideas, if we can come up with a single sentence that conveys the audience more accurately than the current one.

Perhaps the best explanation I remember seeing was one dividing computer usage into "Creation", "Maintenance", and "Usage" (SO, SF, and SU respectively). But now there's dozens of SE sites that carve out bits and pieces, and the Dunning-Kruger effect means many (most?) people can't actually place themselves in one of those three categories accurately (and it's worse with the zillion SE sites).

History (in case you hate your eyeballs that much):

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We tried to come up with something better before. The big problem is that Server Fault's audience is:

[ Senior | Junior ] ( System[s] | Network | Database | Security | Application | Infrastructure ) ( Engineers | Administrators | Technicians | Operators )

That's 84 titles if you want to enumerate all of them. And those are just the common titles. We could break out DNS Administrators or IDSN/ATM Engineers or who knows what else.

I'm all for this ideas, if we can come up with a single sentence that conveys the audience more accurately than the current one.

Perhaps the best explanation I remember seeing was one dividing computer usage into "Creation", "Maintenance", and "Usage" (SO, SF, and SU respectively). But now there's dozens of SE sites that carve out bits and pieces, and the Dunning-Kruger effect means many (most?) people can't actually place themselves in one of those three categories accurately (and it's worse with the zillion SE sites).

History (in case you hate your eyeballs that much):

We tried to come up with something better before. The big problem is that Server Fault's audience is:

[ Senior | Junior ] ( System[s] | Network | Database | Security | Application | Infrastructure ) ( Engineers | Administrators | Technicians | Operators )

That's 84 titles if you want to enumerate all of them. And those are just the common titles. We could break out DNS Administrators or IDSN/ATM Engineers or who knows what else.

I'm all for this ideas, if we can come up with a single sentence that conveys the audience more accurately than the current one.

Perhaps the best explanation I remember seeing was one dividing computer usage into "Creation", "Maintenance", and "Usage" (SO, SF, and SU respectively). But now there's dozens of SE sites that carve out bits and pieces, and the Dunning-Kruger effect means many (most?) people can't actually place themselves in one of those three categories accurately (and it's worse with the zillion SE sites).

We tried to come up with something better before. The big problem is that Server Fault's audience is:

[ Senior | Junior ] ( System[s] | Network | Database | Security | Application | Infrastructure ) ( Engineers | Administrators | Technicians | Operators )

That's 84 titles if you want to enumerate all of them. And those are just the common titles. We could break out DNS Administrators or IDSN/ATM Engineers or who knows what else.

I'm all for this ideas, if we can come up with a single sentence that conveys the audience more accurately than the current one.

Perhaps the best explanation I remember seeing was one dividing computer usage into "Creation", "Maintenance", and "Usage" (SO, SF, and SU respectively). But now there's dozens of SE sites that carve out bits and pieces, and the Dunning-Kruger effect means many (most?) people can't actually place themselves in one of those three categories accurately (and it's worse with the zillion SE sites).

History (in case you hate your eyeballs that much):

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Chris S Mod
Chris S Mod
  • 78.3k
  • 36
  • 72

We tried to come up with something better before. The big problem is that Server Fault's audience is:

[ Senior | Junior ] ( System[s] | Network | Database | Security | Application | Infrastructure ) ( Engineers | Administrators | Technicians | Operators )

That's 84 titles if you want to enumerate all of them. And those are just the common titles. We could break out DNS Administrators or IDSN/ATM Engineers or who knows what else.

I'm all for this ideas, if we can come up with a single sentence that conveys the audience more accurately than the current one.

Perhaps the best explanation I remember seeing was one dividing computer usage into "Creation", "Maintenance", and "Usage" (SO, SF, and SU respectively). But now there's dozens of SE sites that carve out bits and pieces, and the Dunning-Kruger effect means many (most?) people can't actually place themselves in one of those three categories accurately (and it's worse with the zillion SE sites).