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Because trying to use a non-powershell command line on a 17 year old, unsupported Windows server is the poster child for the reasonable information technology management practices close reason.

There are a lot of terms and phrases there I've been happy to forget since moving on from mainframe ops. Without commenting on the specific questions, in theory mainframe questions in general are wel …

GDPR is not really a technology problem. It's a legal issue as Sven says, and its also a business (as in not just IT) process issue. There isn't "one weird trick to being GDPR compliant" that anyone …

Even when this place was quite insistent on the professional requirement, to me that always related to the standard/level of the question, not the resume of the asker. A bad question is bad no matter …

Just so we can wrap this question up, I'll add my comment above as an answer : There's a huge difference between the question that was originally asked and the one you've turned it into with your edi …

I don't want to write scripts from the point of view of answering "write my script for me" questions. However, I favour "teach a person to fish" type answers and sometimes the most effective way to d …

Good question. Maybe they got the answer they needed and didn't feel the need to stick around to tick any of our boxes? Member for 4+ years with 156 rep - even as stingy with votes as we are, that doe …

There's a judgement call to be made here and it's not always easy. If the question is contrived, particularly if it seems to be done so in order to shill/spam for a product in the answers, or to allow …

A better question than "Can I ask my question here" is "where can I get good answers". I'm not convinced you will get good answers for questions about youtrack here. While there might be a few questio …

The aim of the site is to be a replacement for search engines, so good answers are where you find them: there's nothing wrong with an answer that's based on a bit of googling, as long as it does answe …

Looking at the question and the answers that were deleted from it, I'd suggest it was protected because it was acting as a magnet for low quality posts that were really just people asking the same sor …

Thanks for asking here jwerde, asking on the meta sites what is and is not on topic is always welcome. They will have their own set of rules for what precisely they do and do not like to see in a que …

We need good quality questions but who cares if there are noobish questions too, that is what search is for. That rather depends on what you define as "noobish" doesn't it. Questions should refle …

The whole thing for me about the topicality of a question is where will it get the best answer? I think questions about anything concerning the RPi will tend to get better answers on RPi.SE than the …

It's a fine line to walk - there are plenty of sites around that allow "non professionals" to ask geeky questions of professionals but by the time I joined this site, about 4 years ago, a large part o …