Regarding whether use of pronouns is an issue on SE or not, at least one (and I believe two, but I can't find the other) mods have resigned related to feeling like they are not welcome because of their gender identity: literature.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/1195/… I'm currently not an active SE user aside from keeping track of the corporate response to all this, and it's not because of Monica directly, it's because of these other users who have been made to feel unwelcome. The new CoC is, IMHO, a poor attempt at fixing a real problem.

@Gqqnbig I think this is what wombie's last comment is about - Since I'm only ever asking questions about problems I have with professional system administration, and I don't have to try to simplify my questions for the audience here since everyone else is a sysadmin, I find it very easy to word my questions here. I just type them up naturally as if I were talking to a sysadmin sitting right next to me. Somehow I magically have never been grilled on the intent of my questions. Probably because my intent is always obviously to solve a real world problem I'm having in a professional setting.

If the problem is not actually solved, then theoretically it will come back. So the question still needs an answer. So it seems to me a good course is to edit the question with "restarting has caused the problem to go away, at least for now" and leave it for a more permanent answer.

There’s an automatic system that bumps questions to the home page if they haven’t been answered. Edits are not the primary resurrector of obselete questions. Edit farming sounds like a huge amount of work for hardly any reward. After you’ve made your eyes bleed by doing 1000 approved edits, you’ve managed to make it so edits no longer get you rep. And you have a few other privileges. Hooray. So it seems like something no one in their right mind would do.

What is "edit farming"? And what is different about the old posts that means they couldn't benefit from more clarity? I suppose if a question has a highly voted accepted answer then maybe it makes a lot less sense to edit anything, but we keep getting five+ year old questions about obsolete technology bumped to the home page with the implication that someone should try to actually answer the question after all this time and IMHO if the question could be helped by edits then those edits are valuable.

Agreed. I've found the vast majority of content on SE has at least six characters worth of missing or unnecessary punctuation and/or white space, or a list could be turned into a bullets, spelling, emphasis, title cleanup, etc., etc.

Even if I agree that the first sentence of the answer was insulting, it was only insulting to people who are not involved in the question or answer or Stack Exchange (as far as we know), i.e., the coworkers who have no business being Exchange admins. I strongly doubt the "Be Nice" policy covers entities that are not even Stack Exchange users. To me, the tone of the answer actually validated the concerns of the asker, and was entirely appropriate.

Good points. That said, I note the existing of both a Unix/Linux stack and a dedicated Ubuntu stack. Another point against a separate Microsoft stack is that there really doesn't seem to be as much Microsoft traffic on SF, by a wide margin. If a Microsoft stack magically appeared overnight, it might never make it out of beta for lack of sufficient interest separate from SF, unlike the Unix/Linux and Ubuntu stacks.