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26 questions linked to/from What IS a "professional capacity"?
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Where is the best place to ask question about servers but also when "learning new things"?
Being attracted from the name "ServerFault" I thought this was the best StackExchange site to ask about servers which I own with AWS.
But when going through the tour and some meta questions, ...
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What makes virtual box off topic on server fault?
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I'm a fairly green user to server fault, and admittedly to server management. I asked this question regarding an issue with virtualbox which was placed on hold on the basis of
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Can non-professional administrators still ask questions about professional setups?
I by no means consider myself to be a professional network administrator. Rather, I am a systems and application programmer, and an occasional project manager.
However, due to the nature of my work, ...
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Proposed change to Server Fault guidelines
Following up on the discussion here, I’d like to propose some changes to our help center guidelines to remove subjective language (particularly the “professional” part) and simplify things a bit, ...
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Remove "Professional" close-reason
The third close-reason is currently:
Questions must be relevant to professional system administration. Server Fault is dedicated to professional system and network administrators. End user and ...
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Server Fault needs professional-quality questions, not just questions from professionals
In the nearly 4 years that I’ve participated on Server Fault, it’s been a community that I’ve been proud to be a part of, and I’ve been able to build my own skill set a lot and help people out at the ...
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Why was my edit rejected?
I suggested an edit to an answer that improved it IMO quite a bit, but not enough to merit a separate post:
https://serverfault.com/review/suggested-edits/150104
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How can we recruit and retain more talent?
Tangentially related to another meta post, the last discussion about this was a while back, so it may be time to revisit this topic.
The #1 answer in the chat was money, so that and fried chicken ...
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Are we becoming too judgmental about questions relating to "professionalism"?
It seems odd to me that this question (Windows XP procedurally drop packets) is currently flagged for issues on being "professional."
When did this site become so judgmental and only accept ...
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Should we punish and also close questions with blindingly obvious answers?
There are questions that get asked, from time to time, whose answers are fundamental and blindingly obvious to anyone with a reasonable amount of knowledge about the topic being considered, such as ...
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I think we're overdoing "that's not professional" comments
[Most of this post blatantly ripped off from MDMarra's]
https://serverfault.com/questions/590349/compiling-newer-version-of-apache-in-fedora-14
... is the question that prompted my post, but this ...
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Is there recourse for abusive moderation?
I asked this question about yum and Apache, which is a perfectly fine question for this site. A site moderator stepped in and issued comments that were not helpful to answering the question as asked. ...
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What questions are on topic for ServerFault? What is the right thing to do if I asked an off-topic question?
Where can I read what kind of questions that are appropriate to ServerFault?
One could think About page is such a place, but it is not.
I have a couple of questions that were poorly received. I can ...
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Refusing to give teh codez, good or bad practice?
When trying to provide an answer, I sometimes found myself hesitant to provide the exact recipe that would be a solution for a particular problem.
I think it is better (it has always been better when ...
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Should there be a list of tricky "off-topic" subjects for new posters to be directed to?
It seems that some of the community here is rather hostile to new posters who don't know exactly how "professional" a question has to be in order to be accepted here as a good fit.
For example, this ...
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