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Note that the question didn't get closed off topic. It got closed as not constructive because there is a certain expectation that people who ask questions do a little research first. Really short qu …

I don't think there is any particular need to address that beyond the general requirement to be nice. In this field, as with many others, beneath the professional tone used at work, there are often a …

I tend to view the criteria as somewhat more complex and subjective than that summary. If a question seems intelligent or interesting, has a purpose, and is on-topic, I will tend to upvote it. A que …

It's worth noting that I and most people I know do not buy books on things that are part of ops, since they tend to become obsolete even as they are printed. This would include books on iptables, boo …

In general, if a followup question is really a different question, it should be a new question that links to the previous one. If it's just clarification, it should be done with comments. This is so …

You should ask and answer your own question if it's interesting. Most of my questions end up like this; in fact, of all the questions I have asked on this site, another person has answered only one o …

I think there's definitely a bright line here. With vendor-sponsored forums, you end up with a lot of angry chatter between customers, and when you look through such things there are pages of people …

I think this is lovely. I almost have a hard-to-get moderation badge out of it (because the queues besides first posts and close votes are very sparse here). But no, the actual reason this is good i …

The appearance of EOL stuff in a question is clearly not dispositive. On the other hand, if the use of EOL things in the case given is unreasonable or even stupid, such as when the asker is setting u …

No! Not even a bit! The IdM topic in general lies firmly within system administration, and those questions are welcome here. I don't see very many of them (so I don't know how an area 51 proposal w …

I don't know! I won't write scripts or code for people on here because it's time-consuming and I don't want to support the code later. I'd rather explain theory, for the same reason you would I thin …

I tossed an extra downvote on the question, since it is abundantly clear that it has nothing to do with professional system administration. If AV software is causing a problem, the administrator conf …

This tag exists: soho. Nothing asked in this tag will ever be on topic (and there is only one question in it that isn't either already closed or about to be). Assuredly it should be abolished?

Absolutely not! It would have had greater effect if it read: Your boss hasn't given you any substantive reason, in saying this. You should definitely ask for more details (we can't possibly give …

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 th …