Timeline for Are we becoming too judgmental about questions relating to "professionalism"?
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| Jun 2, 2014 at 22:02 | comment | added | Andrew B | @Adam I wouldn't worry about it, just trying to put a finer point on it. :) You may get some mileage out of this answer I supplied a few months back as it addresses the point I'm covering in greater detail. The focus is more on whether the answer we offer is going to be a professional solution, and less on whether the person asking is a professional. | |
| Jun 2, 2014 at 21:35 | comment | added | Adam | @AndrewB Very well, I'll concede your point on the lengthy debate. I have not followed the history or am familiar enough with the current state of the community to draw that conclusion. I am unable to edit my comment on SF to remove that statement though. Maybe a moderator can edit it for me? | |
| Jun 2, 2014 at 21:33 | comment | added | Andrew B | @Adam I'm not sure that this is a "lengthy debate" as you are putting it to this user. We have a definition, and it's linked to in the close reason. The others have covered that this falls under condition that would never exist in a professionally managed production environment. We've had the "I am a professional and my boss is forcing me to do this" angle tossed at us many times before, but that doesn't really change things. At that point you may be an IT professional, but what you're doing isn't, and those aren't the solutions we provide here. | |
| Jun 2, 2014 at 21:19 | comment | added | Adam | @AndrewB Thanks, I commented on his question with some suggestions on how he could improve his question and suggested he may want to alternatively checkout superuser. | |
| Jun 2, 2014 at 20:45 | comment | added | Andrew B | @Adam For Windows workstations outside of our scope, SuperUser is probably your best bet. | |
| Jun 2, 2014 at 15:26 | comment | added | Adam | I understand and agree with you, believe me. From my perspective, I am giving this guy the benefit of the doubt though, and assuming that he has some extenuating circumstance that has led him to this non-ideal problem/solution. There are limitless possibilities to how he got into this situation, and I feel like being too quick to close a question isn't the best approach here. I was curios if there is a different stack exchange site, and I should not have suggested it being a DevOps site, but I don't know where else I would send this OP. | |
| Jun 2, 2014 at 12:51 | comment | added | Michael Hampton Mod | @Adam A very important part of DevOps is Ops warning you that something is way out of left field and should not be done at all. | |
| Jun 2, 2014 at 6:21 | comment | added | Adam | I understand, and appreciate, your point. Would the question be better valued/served on a different stack exchange site? Maybe one that is more geared towards DevOps or something? | |
| Jun 2, 2014 at 6:18 | history | answered | Mark HendersonMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |