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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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

To paraphrase a certain comment about Unix, Serverfault is friendly, it just expects certain standards from its friends. It's not that the site is elitest - questions from people new to systems admini …

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 …

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 …

Have to agree with the answers here, as experienced IT people, we probably face more problems and we certainly face more complex problems than junior IT staff. My own troubleshooting process goes li …

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The approach I tend to take with questions like that, especially ones where someone asks for a very wide-ranging set of knowledge without any appreciation of the size of what they've asked for is to g …

I think that modern telephony is on topic here on server fault: Modern telephony is about a protocol that travels over a computer network (VOIP) and where the modern PABX/PBX and the phone on a user' …

I've always interpreted the requirement for professional sysadmins as referring to the job a person is doing and/or their ability to present issues here in a professional manner rather than membership …

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 …

Does anyone else think its worthwhile locking Useful Command-line Commands on Windows as historical significance only? I know its community wiki but its still a time sink, and is the sort of questio …