Welcome to the glory and the um... well... you're a sysadmin, you're clearly not overly concerned with praise and recognition. ;)

I think the same mindset that draws us to sysadminning might draw us toward seeking efficiency here. It took a while for me to appreciate the efficacy of ...keyword saturation (I guess?) winning out over my desire to have a tidy ratio of one question PER question.

Well, if I'm trying to find an answer to a problem, finding 5-10 high quality questions with answers already provided has got to help me more than finding just 1 or 2. There's a good blurb somewhere (from Jeff, I think) about near-duplicate questions being fine, so long as they ask the question in a slightly different way. Results being a greater chance that the search engine spits us out to answer similar queries.

It seems that 5 votes to close aren't hard to come by for the majority of the bad & misplaced questions. Sometimes it's just a matter of me, as a user, needing to filter well enough to see what I'm interested in & cull the rest. Maybe you want to filter out the "low quality rating" questions? (Not sure whether that's possible?)

Ditto and thanks! Saved me from typing the same thing on this bitty phone keyboard.

I'm guessing that only the meta-users would be remotely interested, and we're probably a small percentage. Most likely just pop onto the site for help/entertainment. Though it does make me wonder.

The bright side of my tendency to have made just about every possible mistake? ;) (but shucks, thanks!)

Good idea, though the answers below have pointed out wording issues we'd have to resolve for each.

That's a good point. Mac admin isn't quite as ubiquitous as some other OS bases, but I don't want to inadvertently exclude them.