Timeline for Creating a canonical "A: Hire a professional" question
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| Jun 20, 2013 at 16:31 | history | edited | TheCleaner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 20, 2013 at 16:30 | comment | added | TheCleaner | I do understand your points, I guess in my mind SF can fall into either a "come one come all" site or be a niche site for experienced IT pros to discuss higher end issues they face. The latter obviously would have less users/traffic but higher brow content. Think community college vs. MIT. The idea was never to be the "Yahoo Answers of IT" I get that. I just don't get the comments when the substance of my answer was no different than Mikey or Mark's, in that I don't think a canonical would help. | |
| Jun 20, 2013 at 15:26 | comment | added | user9517 | Just imagine the quality of SF without the river of shit generated by the 70%. The scope of SF is immense but it's target market is tiny. In reality it was I need new spark plugs, can't see them - take it to a garage - I am aware of my limitations - unlike many who seek to play serverfault. | |
| Jun 20, 2013 at 13:35 | comment | added | TheCleaner | So then the sequence here on SF for you would have been: 1) Iain asks "where are my spark plugs?" 2) MDMarra answers with "Go here to x and look in Y" 3) You comment with "found them...still lost" 4) MDMarra comments with "time to hire a pro". The first reply shouldn't be "haha you don't know where your spark plugs are...go away noob...hire a pro". You have the stats so if 70% of the people asking here are from SO, do we autoreply to anyone like that with "hire a pro" and only work with the other 30%? The site wouldn't exist if everyone in IT knew everything about IT. | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 15:28 | comment | added | user9517 | I recently couldn't find the spark plugs on my BMW Mini and when I was shown them by a mechanic I realised that even if I had found them I couldn't without a special tool - knowing in theory and being equipped are different things. Far too many people ask questions here who shouldn't be allowed near a server. | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 13:09 | comment | added | TheCleaner | So throw out a blanket statement? I can't overhaul an engine but given a little guidance changing out the spark plugs isn't that hard. | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 6:33 | comment | added | user9517 |
If you look at who is asking the questions on SF and in particular their Rep you will see that the majority would not naturally consider themselves within our target market of systems/network/desktop support professionals. ~70% of the people asking questions have more Rep on SO which means that primarily they are programmers ... I don't work on my car because I don't have the skills to do so - why allow someone without skills to run a companies IT ?
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| Jun 18, 2013 at 21:23 | history | answered | TheCleaner | CC BY-SA 3.0 |