Timeline for Being professional to professionals
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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 |
replaced http://meta.serverfault.com/ with https://meta.serverfault.com/
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| Sep 9, 2013 at 0:11 | comment | added | Aaron Mason | @voretaq7 I see what you're saying, but one can apply tact when explaining that what they are doing is bad and wrong. In that situation, I would very calmly point out what a bad idea it is from a security standpoint and point them in the direction of the Right Way(tm). I wouldn't tell them outright because that would rob them of a valuable learning opportunity - but then so would just flatly saying "YOU ARE WRONG!" in my view. | |
| Sep 6, 2013 at 19:03 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | @TheCleaner I have to break out the five-dollar words occasionally or people forget the time the CS department staged a hostile takeover of the English department's Chaucer class... | |
| Sep 6, 2013 at 18:14 | comment | added | TheCleaner |
+1 - not for your answer, but for using comportment and obsequious.
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| Sep 6, 2013 at 15:46 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod |
@AaronMason Tact is often overrated and overvalued. Sometimes a "maybe" is appropriate, but frequently it's not: I'm not going to mince words and pretend that 15 year old Unix, using telnet for management, configured so root can log in remotely without a password, plugged into the public internet is ever acceptable - there's no "maybe", it's simply Bad And Wrong. Like I said above, I'm not one to spare feelings at the cost of allowing bad things to be done to good computers - you'll find people on both sides of that personality divide on Server Fault though.
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| Sep 6, 2013 at 5:59 | comment | added | Aaron Mason | Agreed. A level of tact is never a bad thing - "Maybe this isn't the best way to go, may I suggest blah blah blah" vs "You're doing it wrong!" | |
| Sep 5, 2013 at 16:03 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | @FalconMomot absolutely. Treat people on the site like they're your co-workers, but as if a client is in earshot. (I might tell my colleagues "How the hell did you do this? Were you DRUNK?!?" when there are no clients in the building, but it wouldn't do for the folks who pay the bills to hear us talking like that...) | |
| Sep 5, 2013 at 16:00 | comment | added | Falcon Momot | All agreed, but I'd like to emphasize one thing, which is the word "colleague" rather than "client". Generally, colleagues are allowed to demand a lot less and get humoured a lot less than clients. Our goal is to build useful reference information, more than to make the asker happy. | |
| Sep 5, 2013 at 15:47 | history | answered | voretaq7Mod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |