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Can non-professional administrators still ask questions about professional setups?
I am fine with this, as long as:
The systems and equipment are truly professional-grade. (No questions about Aunt Mabel's inkjet printer)
You have full administrative permissions on the systems you ...
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Can non-professional administrators still ask questions about professional setups?
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 ...
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Can non-professional administrators still ask questions about professional setups?
IMO, you don't need to be a professional sysadmin to ask a question here, you just need to be able to play one on the Internet. A lot of questioners can't manage to play Homo Sapiens on the Internet, ...
wombleMod
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"You can only post once every 40 minutes." Why do I get this error?
This rate limit applies to users with less than 125 reputation, and all posts made by anyone from the same IP address on any Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange site count toward the limit, even if they ...
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Why have my questions not been well-received (danger of being blocked)?
It's good that you've asked here rather than ignoring the warning.
It's an automatic system, based on the "results" of your questions - how many upvotes and downvotes they've gotten, how many have ...
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Question migration
Hypothetically speaking, there's no way this is an actual question, and if someone asked a question like this, with the current level of context on SU it would be closed. Such a question wouldn't be ...
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How long should it take to write an SF question?
It takes me a long time, much of it lost in:
Scrubbing the company-specific details out.
Formatting it for legibility.
Figuring out the show my work parts, and how to summarize it effectively.
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sysadmin1138Mod
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Lots of OpenEBS questions from new users
I hadn't thought of a recurrence of the eternal September but a lot of it has been dealt with by the community moderators.
It appeared as a pair accounts working in tandem and alternating posting ...
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limit in question
Generally speaking, you'll have to wait six months (since your last question). You've been warned before that your questions were (on average, including deleted questions) poorly received, and if ...
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Lots of OpenEBS questions from new users
You are definitely on to something. If you search for "OpenEBS", you will find only a dozen and half or so questions, but almost all of them from new users opening a "new" account in the last 8-10 ...
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How long should it take to write an SF question?
You may not ask many questions, but you write a lot of answers.
I would expect that you can write a question that is well received with a similar amount of effort as compared to what a good answer ...
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