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Being a professional and dressing professional are different. Similarly holding a professional job and writing in a professional style are different. You can argue all you want that your aversion to capital letters is a your style, we'll still find it as unprofessional (and make assumptions about your competence based on what little information we have, especially your style) as we did before. Similarly, we have edited peoples' posts in the past to reflect proper capitalization, will do the same with yours, and will continue to do so as we see fit. If this dissuades you from participating, so
Also, if we have to do a mass retag for whatever reason, best to do them on the weekend and in small groups, when the site is pretty slow anyway and to push less questions off.
They need to add a field to the DB of blackholed tags. Part of the problem right now is that it's an RE search, so they don't let anyone add something as a misplaced .* would take out the whole site.
Also, votes on m.SF don't have any affect, they do not affect your reputation, neither positive nor negative. On m.SF, as womble points out, it means "I agree" or "I disagree". On SF they mean "Good Question" or "Poorly worded/thought-out/factually-flawed Question" (or similar for answers). Also, you posted a cartoon as an Answer, a cartoon which didn't actually answer the question either. I'm sure others have said, read the faq, but this isn't a discussion board or forum, and is meant for professionals to help solve each others problems.
They did actually think about enabling SSL at one point in time (not too long ago actually) but decided not to for the reasons cited in Chopper's answer and Mark's comment thereto (referring to the expensive crypto accelerators necessary for a high traffic SSL site).
I'm not familiar with that particular example, but if all the xyz tagged questions are about a product produced by abc company, then by all means please do retag abc-xyz. That's consistent with what we've been doing anyway.
To redressing John's concern, it would be ultra spectacular if some (or even all) of the presentations could be put up on the scalability.SF site. I know there are a lot of people who wish they could go, but it just isn't feasible.
QuickBooks has a strong stigma of being end users' software and not closely coupled to system administration (in fairness, QB is the best of the cheap crap accounting software). Five users thought SU was a better fit, that's all it takes.
