There's been discussion on chat for quite a while now about creating a canonical question along the lines of: > Q: Our last guy who was our expert in system XYZ left, HALP? > A: Hire someone. > Q: I'm not a systems admin and I broke something, HALP? > A: Hire someone. > Q: I'm the sole IT guy and they're asking me to do XYZ, HALP? > A: Hire someone. i.e. a whole category of questions where the correct *professional* response seems to be "Hire a consultant / replacement because you need a professional sysadmin / expert in XYZ". Related: http://meta.serverfault.com/questions/1127/unqualified-professionals If not a canonical question, then a section in the Help Center. Comments?