Timeline for When an IT administrator needs help handling an issue with one of the user accounts she manages, can she ask a question here?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:37 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://unix.stackexchange.com/ with https://unix.stackexchange.com/
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| Oct 12, 2015 at 8:16 | comment | added | Jenny D | @dbliss Why? Probably because you're a) being rude, b) refusing to abide by site rules, c) accusing others of being self-centered for not being willing to spend their time handling your problems for you despite said problems being blatantly off-topic, and d) even after accepting one answer you are still arguing against it. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 8:11 | comment | added | abcd | @JennyD indubitably it has -- indeed, i upvoted the accepted answer there who knows how long ago -- but if you look at the most up-voted comments there, you'll see that this issue is quite controversial. "stop digging your hole" -- why do you all have to be so adversarial? i asked a question. i got an answer. can we all just let this go? | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 7:43 | comment | added | Jenny D | @dbliss That conversation has already been asked and answered on Meta-SE - see meta.stackexchange.com/questions/64068/… Now would be a good time for you to stop digging your hole deeper. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 6:48 | comment | added | abcd | @JennyD the best system, i think, would be to allow multi-posting, but have all the questions link to each other. but, again, this is probably a conversation that is best off held somewhere else. (what annoys me, by the way, is multi-posting on the same SE site, which i see fairly regularly.) | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 6:45 | comment | added | abcd | @Iain agreed, but those mechanisms are slow. JennyD i guess in a highly indirect way i am being rude. but i think there is another perspective here. it would be nice if these rules were a perfect fit to reality, but of course rules never are. the reality is that different people patrol different SE sites, and many times questions are suitable for multiple SE sites. posting to multiple sites is the best way to get everyone who may have an answer to see your question as quickly as possible. but i see that there are situations in which that is annoying. so i probably won't do it anymore. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 6:41 | comment | added | Jenny D | You are effectively saying "I know the rules, but I will ignore them when it suits me". This is rude - which you may not consider "harm". It is also wasting people's time on multiple platforms - which is both rude and harmful. Again, please don't do that. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 6:40 | comment | added | user9517 | @dbliss There are mechanisms in place for moving good questions to places where they will likely get a good answer if they are not topical where you asked them. Posting to multiple sites just annoys people, the very people you want to help you. Please don't do it. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 6:37 | comment | added | abcd | i suppose responding to this would be more appropriate on yet another meta discussion, but . . . when it's unclear where a question belongs, posting to multiple sites is the most efficient way to find out. had i posted to just one site, i'd still be waiting for an answer. in fact, if the site i chose was other than SO, i might be waiting for an answer forever. i'm going to delete the versions of the question that haven't been answered. so, as far as i'm concerned (though i'm sure others will disagree), no harm, no foul. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 6:31 | comment | added | Jenny D | Please do not post the same question on multiple sites. It is clearly against the rules of StackExchange. If I'd seen the question I would have closed it for that reason. | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 6:30 | comment | added | abcd | i asked this question here, on SO, on super user, and on unix/linux. it received a great answer on SO. so yeah, it was double-dipping to try to stick it here, and i agree with the decision to close/migrate. (at the time i was fighting for it, it hadn't yet been answered elsewhere.) | |
| Oct 12, 2015 at 6:28 | vote | accept | abcd | ||
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| Oct 12, 2015 at 6:28 | history | answered | Jenny D | CC BY-SA 3.0 |