Timeline for Why are learning materials questions off-topic?
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| Apr 10, 2015 at 14:35 | comment | added | Jim B | (somehow the completion comment didn't post) But in frustration the op asked to have it deleted. This user used what he knew and asked a reasonable question. Because he didn't know (and actually asked) what he should be using - he was downvoted. | |
| Apr 9, 2015 at 21:51 | comment | added | Jim B | Here is a perfect example, serverfault.com/questions/680490/… . Clearly I don't think that there would be disagreement that this is an enterprise admin task, looking at the question there is a long explanation of what was done and how best to proceed, based on what he knows, and yet, not only was question put on hold for not demonstrate reasonable business information technology management practice ", | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 19:27 | comment | added | MDMoore313 | questions being asked here in general, it's much easier to go to google and type in a question and search than it is to create an account here, post a question, wait for someone to spoon feed you an answer. We don't have to look too hard for examples of that. I do stand by my answer though in that most here don't shun n00bs, nobody shunned me, but then again I read the faq first, so maybe that's it. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 19:27 | comment | added | MDMoore313 | This was a very specific topic and if someone knew the answer off the top of their head (to be specific this was very new technology so very little was available on the 'net but I did my due diligence anyway) then we've done the internet a great service, as it wasn't readily searchable until then. However, no one offered an answer, but I didn't give up, eventually when I found the answer I posted it myself, thus contributing to the 'cause. Jim, I can't speak for everyone, but a lot of long-timers (I don't count myself in that group, but I feel the same way) on SF are tired of the low quality | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 19:26 | comment | added | MDMoore313 | @JimB you're assuming that googling something to that someone else knows the answer to already would typically take an hour, when that may or may not be true. Also, I've said nothing regarding beginners and researching first that isn't in the help documentation. I asked my first question on the network after searching through to the bowels on the internet (yes, for hours) and not finding anything relevant. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 18:49 | comment | added | kasperd | One can be an expert system administrator without knowing every product a system administrator may need to touch. I don't think the questions asked by an expert system administrator about a product completely new to him would bother other experts. Questions fitting that criteria would likely be much higher quality than those written by a person with no system administrator experience whatsoever, but they may still be very basic. | |
| Apr 6, 2015 at 18:45 | comment | added | Jim B | I have to disagree with the "beginners are encouraged" as well as "asking questions without researching first is not respecting someone's time" to the first, I long ago stopped recommending new admins go to SF as a source of answers because the questions they were asking kept getting shunted to SF or rejected. As far as wasting time- which is less respectful "wasting" your time with a question you know the answer to off the top of your head or making one spend an hour "researching" a topic that you could have simply answered in potentially minutes- I find the latter far more disrespectful | |
| Apr 1, 2015 at 9:57 | history | edited | Andrew Schulman | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 24, 2014 at 14:41 | comment | added | Norman Gray | Heh: I tend to go with my hard-won Usenet intuitions for (technical) questions. But since we're now (gasp!) into the third decade of Eternal September, that may be wearing thin.... | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 13:55 | comment | added | MDMoore313 | Yeah I tried to generalize as much as possible since you asked a great general question for meta, imho. I have to admit I didn't ready your original question though | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 13:49 | comment | added | Norman Gray | Sure, I take that general point, which is precisely why I made clear in the question that I already know how a VPN works in principle, what (I thought) was weak about the Wikipedia article, and why the existing questions and answers here weren't addressing the problem. I intended to indicate also why book-length resources weren't useful, but I don't think I communicated that well. But my question (and your answer) is about the general category rather than my specific question, so this comment may not be relevant. | |
| Jun 24, 2014 at 13:31 | history | answered | MDMoore313 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |