OP stated "the DNS and AD controllers all replicate", then said "he didn't integrate it with AD so it doesn't replicate". Sounds like he replaced basic troubleshooting with assumptions. Not sure what kind of answer can account for that.

Something like this? meta.serverfault.com/questions/1986/… I believe linking to it on main has been suggested before, but shot down.

Nobody in chat is shy about calling someone out for being rude. They quite often ask if they were being too mean. Granted, you'll probably see people ripping on the user in the chat transcript, but definitely not on the main site. As for regulars not getting slapped: serverfault.com/users/118258/hopelessn00b He never came back after his suspension. And just recently this was brought up on meta: meta.serverfault.com/questions/5888/serial-close-voting as a direct reaction to what a regular in chat was doing. I'd say being a regular in chat makes you more likely to get called out.

Considering your great lack of examples, I thought I'd collect some of the opposite: chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/127?m=11219345#11219345 chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/127?m=11509147#11509147 chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/127?m=8020682#8020682 chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/127?m=8703110#8703110 chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/127?m=8726140#8726140 chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/127?m=9635959#9635959 chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/127?m=9859621#9859621 chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/127?m=9918309#9918309

@TimPost Any progress on Cloudshark integration? About to post a question that would benefit from it and I remembered this thread.

@Sirex Why is that sad? I thought it was by sysadmins for sysadmins? I thought we held elections?

@PeterSnow 'I wanted advice from a pro' + 'seems to me like a big boys club' How do you reconcile this conflict?

Won't it be a dupe of this question if it gets migrated?

Reminds me of the cPanel discussion.