Does Stack Exchange view today's ServerFault as a more hostile, insular community than other SE sites, particularly as it realtes to new users?
Potential discussion points
- Is ServerFault diverging in its tone from other successful sites
- Is there a concern that ServerFault's challenges in dealing with low-quality or non-professional questions is also driving away experts in a way not seen on other SE sites (like StackOverflow)
- Is there a sense that new user have more difficulty when joining this community (open arms, cult, "Earn respect" system, etc)
- Does SE think the community has a perception that good questions can only come from within
- How do all of these contribute to userbase growth, and does SE think this is an aspect of the site's challenges that's getting under-represented here on Meta, etc?
NOTE: I (Jaydles) undeleted this post, as I agree with the mods: it's related enough to what the goal of the question was to deserve open consideration. I'm also making edits to the phrasing to make it more consistent with the other suggested topics and to lead the witness a bit less. If the OP feels I'm misrepresenting, feel free to edit again, but my goal here was to capture your core points.
