Timeline for What delineates a "Business Environment?"
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| Apr 9, 2017 at 6:54 | comment | added | MadHatter | @MartinSchröder we have tried. We have tried to clarify the site rules (in fact, they used to be clearer, and fuzzier ones were forced on us). Look back in meta and watch it happen. The owners of this site seem unwilling to allow us professional admins to clarify that we are only interested in professional-quality questions, but we're the ones answering most of the questions, so they can't do without us either. An uneasy peace generally holds, but I freely concede that it doesn't help the newcomer to the site really understand what's going on. | |
| Apr 7, 2017 at 10:48 | comment | added | Martin Schröder | Then we should have a faq question defining in a business environment. | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 12:58 | comment | added | EEAA Mod | @MikeyT.K. This exact thing happened with the OP's question. This person thought it was necessary, for "security" reasons, to censor their RFC1918 addresses. This of course makes it impossible to understand network topology. Even after noting this to the OP and recommending that they un-censor their IPs and also provide subnet masks, they failed to do that. I was trying to help, but the OP thought (incorrectly) that providing the additional information was not necessary. So, the question stayed closed for this and other reasons. | |
| Apr 2, 2017 at 12:53 | comment | added | EEAA Mod | @MikeyT.K. As I said below, if a non-professional can write a well-researched, reasonably-scoped question about systems they have full control over, then they'll likely be left open here. The problem is that there are very few non-professionals that even have the ability to write a good question about this sort of thing. They try, but fail to understand even the most basic of concepts and/or fail to be able to explain things clearly, even when asked for specific clarification. Thus, their question gets closed. | |
| Apr 1, 2017 at 12:12 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | @MikeyT.K. You miss the point, it got killed because of the licence, but he refused to give detail about the networking info, and the OP state there on meta that its a networking problem. And if its a networking problem, does the OP can login to those switch ? or its gear in his university managed by someone else ? Its the same policy than on math, as they close on sight homework, even if its mathematic in the end | |
| Apr 1, 2017 at 3:28 | comment | added | Mikey T.K. | Am I the only one that thinks "why does it matter, if I can change the word student, to professional and then get useful answers" is a fairly accurate description of an incredibly arbitrary and unhelpful policy stance? This puts you all in the incredibly tenuous position of killing questions because the OPs gave too much info. vSphere is professional software. Always has, always will be. Any policy ignoring that simple fact is absurd. | |
| Mar 31, 2017 at 11:30 | comment | added | user121391 | Regarding the split-up of sites: If you compare stackoverflow with any of the smaller sites, you'l notice that the difference is massive (for example, 412 featured questions on SO, 6 on SF, 5 on U&L, 12 on SU). This means that if you would throw all the sub sites into a bowl, you would still have a tiny portion of the main side. Further segregating topics like it is done here sometimes, will do nothing to help focusing, because the sites are much too small to even need that (and tags are site-specific/duplicated, as is the search). | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 23:10 | comment | added | trueCamelType | I definitely don't want to troubleshoot the issue here :) I just wanted to give my opinion on what they meant by business environment. I believe him that it's a network error, and I love everyone. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 23:10 | vote | accept | SuperAdmin | ||
| Mar 29, 2017 at 23:09 | comment | added | SuperAdmin | I have had this exact setup before, with the same licenses. The issue is a network error. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 23:07 | comment | added | trueCamelType | No, I think that's an excellent reason for it to be closed. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 23:06 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | i agree, iam french, i maybe wrote it badly, but I mean, do you use NFR licence or unit in any of your business customer for production use ? | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 22:55 | comment | added | trueCamelType | @yagmoth555 I agree with you 100%. But his question wasn't necessarily why was his question off topic, but why it wasn't considered business environment. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 22:54 | comment | added | yagmoth555 Mod | Even with a scenario, its still unprofessional to recommand NFR licence for business use, as its not legal. (legal for labbing, but we fall offtopic for another reason). In all case the op cant easily get an answer, as who can tell us its not the licence type that block. vmware forum is more suited there for that reason in that case. | |
| Mar 29, 2017 at 22:43 | history | answered | trueCamelType | CC BY-SA 3.0 |