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Should the "Ask Question" process warn that we require a professional context?

Recently, there was a popular Meta question concerning changing the site subtitle to prevent inbound migrations of off-topic questions.

The old site subtitle was:

Q&A for system administrators and desktop support professionals

The site subtitle recently changed to:

Q&A for professional system and network administrators

We continue to receive off-topic questions that are asked directly at ServerFault. When asking a new question, users are told only that their question should relate to "servers, networking, or desktop infrastructure." For the majority of users who do not read the FAQ, there is no indication whatsoever that questions will be rejected if they do not relate to these topics in a professional capacity.

We are wasting our time, not to mention that of countless naive askers, because the "Ask Question" user experience practically invites off-topic questions relating to home networking and home workstations.

Should we change the "Ask a question" title hint and sidebar to specify "in a professional capacity"?

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