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Server Fault needs professional-quality questions, not just questions from professionals

Obligatory preamble as to where this is coming from: I would consider myself an outsider of Server Fault. I'm very young (not legally an adult), and so I'm learning system administration in the age of …
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Why might I have gotten downvoted for this question?

Recently I posted What are best practices for creating a system account? (*NIX). When I checked, it was downvoted -2. It seems ok to me, so can someone tell me what's wrong with it so I can ask better …