Timeline for Why is this question on "determing number of domains under a registrar" OffTopic for Serverfault?
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| Nov 2, 2015 at 8:54 | comment | added | user9517 | I have said everything I have to say on this matter. Please stop polluting my inbox with your squabbling. If you continue to do so I will consider you to be harassing me and take appropriate actions. If you wish to continue this then take it to chat. | |
| Nov 2, 2015 at 8:50 | comment | added | user176193 | it's only a professional consensus when all users vote (or a large majority) which is why 'voting' is compulsory. | |
| Nov 2, 2015 at 6:00 | comment | added | Wesley | @Vek.M1234 You described an Ochlocracy, but in reality ServerFault is more like a Democracy. There's a difference between tyranny of the majority and professional consensus. For example, while there's plenty of evidence that could be presented by medical professionals to argue against binding wounds with duct tape, in a professional setting any question regarding duct tape as a medical instrument would simply be shut down as a matter of professional consensus for self-evident outlandishness, amateurs with anecdotal evidence of duct tape as a band-aid notwithstanding. | |
| Nov 2, 2015 at 5:06 | comment | added | user176193 | mm might is right we are the majority, we think this is right: therefore it is. | |
| Nov 2, 2015 at 4:59 | comment | added | Wesley |
@Vek.M1234 Close reason: Questions should demonstrate reasonable business information technology management practices. Questions that relate to unsupported hardware or software platforms or unmaintained environments may not be suitable for Server Fault - see the help center. The question would broadly fall under that, most comfortably. If 9 out of 10 sysadmins say something isn't a reasonable business practice, it isn't. Or in ServerFault parlance, if 5 users vote something as off topic, then it is. Or even worse, if a question is so awful that a mod has to hammer it dead, then let it die =D
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| Nov 2, 2015 at 4:10 | comment | added | user176193 | 1. cite please: link to where it says that the subject matter at hand has to have a practical way. 2. zone transfer is one way to do this (if the server was mis-configured) - so it's on-topic anyways. | |
| Nov 2, 2015 at 4:01 | comment | added | Wesley |
@Vek.M1234 It MOST CERTAINLY is the sys-admins task! No it isn't.
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| Nov 2, 2015 at 4:01 | comment | added | Wesley |
@Vek.M1234 "no reasonably practical way to do what you want for many registrars." that is not grounds for the question being marked Offtopic. Yes it is.
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| Nov 2, 2015 at 2:31 | comment | added | user176193 | "no reasonably practical way to do what you want for many registrars." that is not grounds for the question being marked Offtopic. | |
| Nov 2, 2015 at 2:18 | comment | added | user176193 | I don't follow: In a business environment one has to research registrars before purchasing from them - all the more reason to figure out who their clients are and what they do (a large number of shady pharmaceutical companies implies unethical practices). It MOST CERTAINLY is the sys-admins task! | |
| Nov 1, 2015 at 21:21 | comment | added | Sven Mod | Yes, that was my reasoning exactly - I don't see this as a system admin task, and I don't see a practical way how this knowledge could help to "filter out the nasty creeps" - I think that's just a made-up argument. | |
| Nov 1, 2015 at 16:44 | history | edited | user9517 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Nov 1, 2015 at 16:38 | history | answered | user9517 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |