Timeline for Sure, we like the IDEA of voting, but we are poor in our actions
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| Oct 9, 2013 at 13:44 | comment | added | user9517 | @XiongChiamiov: There will always be exceptions. The vast majority of people on SO would not consider themselves sysadmins et al. | |
| Oct 5, 2013 at 3:55 | comment | added | Xiong Chiamiov | Now that I've thought about it a little more, I came up with another reason: I rarely actively find questions to answer on SE (I usually answer questions I come across while trying to solve a problem), and while programming research almost always ends up with me on SO, sysadmin problems find me on NixCraft, linuxquestions.org, and (mostly) a wide variety of mailing list archives. Developers and sysadmins seem to look for help in different places, in general, and thus the body of knowledge differs in location as well. | |
| Oct 5, 2013 at 1:49 | comment | added | Xiong Chiamiov | @Iain I consider myself a sysadmin and yet have three times as much rep on SO as SF. I think this comes from a few things: I do program frequently, I've been on SO longer (as it's older), and an awful lot of questions end up on SO from programmers trying to do system administration. There's also the subreddit effect - more upvotes happen on the more popular site. | |
| Oct 1, 2013 at 14:59 | comment | added | voretaq7 Mod | Re: people getting defensive about being downvoted, My standard action for anyone discussing voting on the main site is to tell them to take it to Meta, and delete the comment an hour or so later. This is per a mSO discussion a long time ago (I think it was before I became a mod) where the network-wide consensus was "We don't talk about voting in the comments" (No "-1 because you're an idiot", no "Why was I downvoted?" - it's a Meta discussion about the site mechanics, not the question). I used to give friendly explanations, but that just seemed to encourage MORE whining. | |
| Oct 1, 2013 at 12:14 | comment | added | user9517 | As to what drives them here - the general inability to read and think for themselves is my best guess. | |
| Oct 1, 2013 at 12:13 | comment | added | user9517 | On several occasions I've straw polled the first 50 questions and when I have done so not less than 55% and as much as 80% of questions are from people who have more reputation on SO than on SF and therefore would not naturally consider themselves System Admins et al (our target audience). Of the remainder some proportion would also not consider themselves sysadmins etc but that can't be determined. This feels about right as in reality there are relatively few sysadmins compared to the number of developers. | |
| Oct 1, 2013 at 9:13 | history | answered | MadHatter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |