Timeline for Some parting thoughts... and apologies for the drama
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| Apr 16, 2015 at 13:33 | comment | added | jlehtinen | @ewwhite Ew, reddit? :/ My experience with that site is that it's a great time-waster but it's not really a useful resource. That's where I'd go if I wanted some gifs/puns about sysadmin... | |
| Apr 15, 2015 at 15:28 | comment | added | jlehtinen | @EEAA Have you found other sites, IRC channel, or similar where you spend your time? I want to contribute to a sysadmin community, but SF isn't a good fit. I want to collaborate with professionals, not provide free technical support. | |
| Apr 14, 2015 at 9:57 | comment | added | BlueCompute | @RobertHarvey If you're a 'hobbyist developer', then this site isn't for you, according to 'for professional system administrators'. You either is or you isn't, no? | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 5:59 | comment | added | Andrew B | @Robert EEAA has a well-demonstrated track record for putting the smackdown on those do talk down their nose to people, and I was one of the pigheaded newbies who he put in their place. Please find someone who actually fits your preconceptions to grind the axe against. | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 1:56 | comment | added | EEAA | @RobertHarvey Cripes, I never once said anything derogatory about anyone here. Have a good evening. | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 1:41 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | I'm one of those hobbyist developers you so eloquently talked about. Despite your protestations, your site is not the special flower you make it out to be, nor does your profession somehow stand head and shoulders above the others. Your site is a QA site, just like the rest. If you want to make this a productive discussion, then suggest ways you can improve moderation. Stack Overflow nearly collapsed under the weight of the kind of questions you're talking about, so please don't try to convince me that your site problems are somehow unique. | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 1:38 | comment | added | EEAA | @RobertHarvey I made no such statement. I was merely explaining the main thing that sets SF apart as a bit different. I have no idea who you are or what your profession is. | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 1:35 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @EEAA: I'll overlook the fact that you just called me an amateur. | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 1:32 | comment | added | EEAA | @RobertHarvey You're incorrect. There's a single thing that differentiates SF from the rest of the network: the site is for professionals, by professionals. Not hobbyists. Not developers, but people who are charged with maintaining servers, networks, workstations professionally. | |
| Apr 13, 2015 at 1:20 | comment | added | Robert Harvey |
... vast difference between SF and the rest of SE -- Therein lies part of the problem; SE sites that feel they are somehow fundamentally different than the rest of the network. They're not.
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| Apr 12, 2015 at 22:35 | comment | added | TheCleaner |
"lower end of the high-rep users" - were you high when you wrote that part?
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| Apr 12, 2015 at 1:54 | comment | added | HopelessN00b | For my part, I don't really have any hard feelings about the way Shog handled this, and I don't believe him handling it "better" would have changed things for me. Less drama, probably, which is always a good thing, but I think that as soon as I stepped back to look at all the effort I was sinking into the cleanup I was doing, I'd have come to the same conclusions I posted in my question above. I think the real problem here is the vast difference between SF and the rest of SE, and the fact that there is no active Community Manager "assigned to" the SF community to help bridge that gap. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 19:32 | comment | added | joeqwerty | I disagree with your evaluation of your impact on this conversation. Regardless of your rep (or mine, or anyone else's), your impact is a reflection of your contribution to this community and yours stands among the top. I'm saddened to see N00b leave and his departure will take something of value away from this community, as will yours if you decide the same. | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 19:23 | comment | added | Mathias R. Jessen | +1, still in shock. The "rogue behavior" that caused the revocation of N00b's mod status was (to me atleast) a natural continuation of the immense cleanup effort that has been lifted by N00b, and discussed openly and repeatedly on meta over the last 6-8 months - with near-unanimous support from the people who took the time to participate. Disgraceful | |
| Apr 11, 2015 at 19:14 | history | answered | EEAA | CC BY-SA 3.0 |