Timeline for Should we punish and also close questions with blindingly obvious answers?
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| May 18, 2014 at 9:22 | comment | added | user9517 | @MGOwen The bigger picture is that ServerFault is not here for just about anyone who can log into a VPS - this does not make you a Professional System Admin. | |
| May 16, 2014 at 19:50 | comment | added | tomasofen | My first question in Server Fault has been closed before someone could ever reply, just becouse someone thought that it was a not proffesional one. I think that if someone takes the time to ask (helping that way to improve the content for search engines, and many times making an effort writing in english not beeing its first language), it should at least be allowed to be replied. I think this sould be a basic netiquete for politeness, and a good thing for SF, as MGOwen says. | |
| May 16, 2014 at 3:37 | comment | added | MGOwen | I am of the opinion that when someone googles a super basic question, it's not a bad thing if the top result is an answer here on ServerFault. A huge portion of the value of stackexchange sites is helping not just the one guy who asked the original question, but the thousands of googlers who found the perfect, edited upvoted answers he got. Don't lose sight of the bigger picture. | |
| May 13, 2014 at 14:19 | comment | added | user9517 | I think this is (sadly) just one more excellent example of this problem. | |
| May 8, 2014 at 6:29 | comment | added | Andrew B | After struggling with it on someone's question tonight, I think I've found a succinct and polite way to explain the demark to people. Asking to have a concept explained to you is fair game. Jumping into the deep end before you know how to swim in the shallows is not. We're here to solve specific problems, but often times the problem is not the one they're asking us to help them with: understanding the basics. | |
| May 8, 2014 at 1:08 | vote | accept | Falcon Momot | ||
| May 6, 2014 at 13:41 | history | answered | Grant | CC BY-SA 3.0 |