Timeline for Why is there just one person allowed to close off a question?
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| Jul 27, 2017 at 8:52 | comment | added | Nils | What is that "gold tag badge"? Could not find it with your link. | |
| May 15, 2017 at 7:39 | comment | added | Sven Mod | Re. the existence of the tag xampp: Not all questions regarding this product are necessarily off-topic. I can imagine questions regarding how to efficently install this product for multiple developers in an automated fashion. This would't be considered the same as questions regarding to do this for products like MS Office and the like. | |
| May 14, 2017 at 5:11 | comment | added | EEAA Mod | If the community decides after hearing your rationale that they do want to allow these questions, I'll do it gladly. Until then, though, you'll just need to come to grips with the fact that your question is off-topic. | |
| May 14, 2017 at 5:09 | comment | added | EEAA Mod | Yes, we do actually assume that question askers do have full control of the systems they're asking about. If they don't, they're users of the system, not administrators. Server Fault is not like most other SE sites, in that it is by professionals, for professionals. We've collectively drawn a line in the sand, and have agreed that XAMPP questions are off-topic. If you want to try and sway community opinion on this, you're always free to post a meta question with your reasoning. | |
| May 14, 2017 at 5:04 | comment | added | blankip | cont... It is akin to someone asking how to install some door in the DIY and then they say they won't answer because that brand of door isn't good enough quality. Well that is perfectly fine to comment about the quality of the door and telling them that they are dumb for using the door but they would still tell you how to install it as best as it could be. What is more perplexing and quite frankly idiotic is why there would be a tag "XAMPP" when all XAMPP questions are refused. | |
| May 14, 2017 at 5:02 | comment | added | blankip | I don't think you guys get it. I would never set up a server like this. It is being used in production for a large scale suite of sites. I took over managing this - which is co-owned by a vendor. What the site is assuming is that the people asking the questions have full control. I am asking what can I do given the constraints I have not "tell me how bad my environment is and refuse to talk unless I do things the perfect way". ... cont. | |
| May 14, 2017 at 2:42 | comment | added | EEAA Mod | @blankip Do you need more clarification? I genuinely want to help you understand what happened here. We're not a bunch of militant power-hungry jerks. We all participate here because we have a desire to help people. Sometimes, though, helping people well means telling them things that they don't want to hear. I believe that's what happened with your question. | |
| May 13, 2017 at 4:24 | comment | added | EEAA Mod | I can assure you that there is consensus on this issue not only among the moderators here, but also among the community in general. Evidence of that is visible in the voting on this exact question and answer. Look, I know this wasn't the answer you wanted, but this was the risk you took when asking on a site that values doing things right and building secure, well-supported, reliable systems. XAMPP and the other one-click installers don't fit into that picture. | |
| May 13, 2017 at 4:21 | comment | added | EEAA Mod | Furthermore: I couldn't care less if XAMPP is used in production. Whether or not something is used has absolutely no bearing on whether or not it should be used. Windows Server 2003 is still used on hundreds of thousands of servers around the world, in spite of the fact that it's EOL and is not receiving security updates. Does the fact that it's in use make it a good idea? Absolutely not. | |
| May 13, 2017 at 4:19 | comment | added | EEAA Mod | @blankip I will give you two quotes from the XAMPP website. 1) "XAMPP is the most popular PHP development environment" and 2) "The goal of XAMPP is to build an easy to install distribution for developers to get into the world of Apache." Do you need any more evidence than that? | |
| May 13, 2017 at 3:22 | comment | added | blankip | Who says XAMPP is a dev tool? It is on thousands of production environments world wide. I didn't choose to use it (it was made for me) and agree it has issues but since it is used on productions servers - EVERYWHERE - I doubt your ability to answer this question. Please show me that XAMPP is not used in production environments. I am not sure you or the few other mods that agree are the people who make definitions for what is prod and what isn't. The site's FAQs suggest it is a good question so maybe you should get that changed too. Unreal. | |
| May 12, 2017 at 17:12 | history | answered | EEAAMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |