I was wondering if ServerFault could add Network Engineering to one of the allowable sites for close redirection.
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1To those of you that downvoted remember this is a forum for suggesting ideas, discussion, and making comments on them. Simply downvoting suggestions is not really that valuable in a meta forum. What we all want to encourage is suggestions even though others might not agree.– mdpcCommented Jul 1, 2013 at 6:24
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10Downvotes on meta indicate disagreement.– user9517Commented Jul 1, 2013 at 6:37
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I thought that they indicate problems with the formation, formatting, or research on a specific question.– mdpcCommented Jul 1, 2013 at 16:31
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4From the linked document under the heading Voting is different on meta. _Votes on meta are generally used to express agreement or disagreement with a particular idea, rather than indicating the quality of research or factual correctness of a post... _– user9517Commented Jul 1, 2013 at 17:39
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thanks for the correcting my misperception.– mdpcCommented Jul 1, 2013 at 17:40
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I'm against this primarily on the grounds that NE is 100% overlapping with SF. So there's absolutely no reason anyone should be migrating a Question there unless the OP requests that it be migrated.
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6Rather, NE should just migrate everything here...– Michael Hampton ModCommented Jun 30, 2013 at 17:29
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Meh, if they can be successful as a duplicate, more power to them I guess...– Chris S ModCommented Jul 1, 2013 at 3:54
This question seems to be largely a duplicate of:
Will/Should Serverfault be dropping the "networking support" in the upcoming future?
The takeaway from that earlier discussion is that the way NE is currently defined, it overlaps 100% with SF - any question that's on-topic there is also on-topic here. So it doesn't make sense to have an off-topic migration path from here to there.
answered Jun 30, 2013 at 22:54
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yep, I learned there that the NE site experts might handle higher end exceptions from SF, but once you are at the level to be on-topic for them then you are probably already proficient enough to figure it out or your next step is usually the OEM TAC and not a forum. Commented Jul 11, 2013 at 13:10
This can't happen until NE 'graduates'. Built in migration paths to Beta sites is something SE doesn't allow as a rule.
answered Jun 30, 2013 at 19:48
To be honest I'm not sure what the point of NE is; network engineering is really a component of systems administration, and in smaller scenarios is even usually done by sysadmins. The skill set is the same and most people I know in my field have at least a CCNA if not a CCNP.
Migrating questions unnecessarily simply annoys users and redirects efforts from closing things that are garbage, deduplicating, and migrating things that are actually off topic here. I can't think of any scenario under which a migration to NE would be appropriate, though the converse is not true.
