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Possible to search sister SE sites before posting a question?
@HopelessN00b Hmmm... but if I read the site FAQ: "... Super User for general Networking,". So, SuperUser, StackOverflow, ServerFault? And it turned out that the right (existing) answer was on Webmasters. I take your point. Its a growing problem though. Isn't there a larger SE feature request tracking scheme?
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About page (not the FAQ), was mislead me.
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Possible to search sister SE sites before posting a question?
@Michael Hampton Thanks for answering my original question though. Was helpful.
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Well maybe. I don't mind the details of how the question got closed so much, but I think my use case is common (because of the clear overlap between the SE sites), and some features along the lines of the ones I added would help users and moderators (or whomever flags stuff as off-topic).
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@Michael Hampton ... well ... they kinda did? Didn't they? The moderators said it was off-topic and zapped it.
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My point is: i) there's no place to grumble (at the question) about whether its off-topic or not, ii) I don't think I could have reasonably found the right non-off-topic forum without doing a fair bit of work, iii) the forum's about page led me to believe this was the right place. I'm bringing it up because I've run into this several times despite making a best honest effort to ask sensible questions in the right places. I think its solvable in the website's design.
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@r.tanner.f I'm not upset. I think the answers were helpful and great, but the SE UX could have lead to a happier place for sure. I read the about page for Server Fault - it says its "for professional system and network administrators". I also found lots of questions tagged "domain-registration", and no obvious answer to my question. So it seemed a good place to post it. So, I'm a little surprised when its flagged as off-topic. (Actually, thinking about it, I still don't understand why its off-topic.)
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@HopelessN00b I think my question was a reasonable one for at least one SE site, and I agree to the people who kindly replied, that the question was a duplicate. Without visiting 4 separate SE sites, I couldn't have found it.
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