Timeline for New close reasons - Proposals (July 2013)
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| Jul 23, 2013 at 14:02 | comment | added | Warren P | Suggested rewording: "You're an idiot, go away". That is why I don't like this Close-Reason. It's just euphemism for what I said. | |
| Jul 18, 2013 at 4:43 | comment | added | William Denniss | agree with @sysadmin1138, it is very presumptive, and feels like an attack. Better to focus on the question, not the questioner? | |
| Jul 4, 2013 at 13:16 | comment | added | user9517 | @AaronLS: We shouldn't need to tell someone to chcek their logs they should be providing us with relevant snippets. | |
| Jul 3, 2013 at 5:08 | comment | added | AaronLS | Sometimes I think these questions are misinterpreted. The asker may not expect you to solve their problem for them, or hold their hand with a back and forth "now do this, what do you see"? But instead just some troubleshooting pointers are often appreciated. "E.g. that error could be caused by many things, check your Event Logs, and also run sysinternals process monitor to see if there are file access errors that indicate permissions problem" I've seen some broad questions, but the asker only expected broad answer to point them in right direction and they were happy with that. | |
| Jul 2, 2013 at 19:32 | comment | added | Michael Hampton Mod | This seems mostly redundant, as much or all of what it would cover is already "too broad". | |
| Jul 2, 2013 at 19:05 | history | rollback | Dennis Kaarsemaker |
Rollback to Revision 4
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| Jul 2, 2013 at 13:32 | history | edited | TRiG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
ARRRGH: comma splice.
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| Jul 1, 2013 at 23:23 | comment | added | sysadmin1138 Mod | As a moderator I have to say I'm really tempted to veto this close-reason if it comes up. 1) It is very much an attack on the questioner, and 2) Offers nothing for how to rework the question to something that is acceptable. Point 1 is what we're trying to get away from, and point 2 is one of the main goals of the close-question rewrite process. | |
| Jun 28, 2013 at 6:46 | comment | added | user11604 |
It might be worth trying to catch the cpanel, dev stacks, rasperry pis, etc with an answer such as this one, by adding something along the lines of or you are asking about software or hardware that isn't typically supported by professional systems administrators.
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| Jun 27, 2013 at 23:20 | comment | added | Wesley | @voretaq7 Nah, mine was bad and I feel bad. | |
| Jun 27, 2013 at 22:47 | comment | added | user11604 |
+1; I like that a lot, but I'd personally would tame down Very clear by replacing it with likely or quite apparent. This would make it a little less insulting to any professionals that do post crap questions, (although they often deserve insulting for asking crap questions). I think it's better for them to take something constructive from the message and feel inclined to fix it, rather than being annoyed by it and never come back here. Also, as voretaq7 suggested, I'd avoid the use of Novice.
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| Jun 27, 2013 at 22:39 | comment | added | Nathan C | Something about making an educated attempt at resolving the problem so there's some basis to the question (answers "what did you try?"). This way people newer to certain sysadmin(ing?) tasks will feel welcome here. | |
| Jun 27, 2013 at 22:06 | history | edited | voretaq7Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 27, 2013 at 21:59 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | @WesleyDavid made your attempt a separate answer (so we can keep the voting straight :-) | |
| Jun 27, 2013 at 21:33 | history | edited | Wesley | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
My two centavos
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| Jun 27, 2013 at 21:28 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | I'm not sure "novice" questions are off-topic (I'd like to think we would certainly help a junior admin with a well-crafted question) so much as "not professional" is off topic. I took a stab at this in a separate answer, but I like your phrasing as well. You might want to work in a link to meta.serverfault.com/questions/4111 defining "professional capacity" | |
| Jun 27, 2013 at 21:27 | history | edited | voretaq7Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 27, 2013 at 21:23 | comment | added | Wesley | Yes, since ServerFault is one of the few StackExchanges that limits not only what can be asked, but also who can ask it, this is very necessary. "Your role is not within the scope of the allowed asking audience." | |
| S Jun 27, 2013 at 21:19 | history | answered | Dennis Kaarsemaker | CC BY-SA 3.0 | |
| S Jun 27, 2013 at 21:19 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Dennis Kaarsemaker |