While specific questions related to aquirring an SA job or hiring SAs might be on-topic, as you mentioned there has to be something that really stands out as "For SysAdmins Only", otherwise it's just another generic job question. Similarly for education questions; asking for a book recommendation for a specific topic is on-topic, while asking what degree you should go to college for is off-topic. Overall hit the mark close enough to warrant a +1.

Don't both with tag synonyms, just request them on mSF. Nobody has the necessary prerequisites, the system was made for SO, it doesn't work for any of the other SE sites.

@John, unless you're already epic on SO or mSO, they're extremely hostile. Also, don't even think about addressing a problem that's outside the scope of SO, there are no other SE sites but SO to those on mSO. They've got a pretty extreme case of Programmer Groupthink going on.

Thank you for making me feel old by needing to put the Pentium crack in context.

Another glorious SO shovel full: serverfault.com/questions/265128/why-i-cant-access-my-server

Not really related to this one, but "Not a Real Question" is often what I pick when its something a SA really should know already.

As Iain points out, that's rep change. A person's rep can't go negative, it stops at 1. Also, it isn't cumulative. If you start at 1, get a -6 for a bad question, then your next question is good and you get two upvotes (+10), your rep total will be 11.

I believe it only shows people who voted 11 or more times.

@Holo, if it's just a link and no explanation as to why the link would be useful it's still unacceptable. If you're going to copy-n-paste a link the least you can do is one sentence saying "Your problem XYZ is solved by ABC, more details in [link]".

@Robert, we don't blame the mods really... I figure you're probably aware of the situation. The community are usually the culprits of the bad moves.

Also, high rep users can see the suggestion and who approved it, in this case "Approved 22 hours ago by Mark Henderson"

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@Zoredache, I really don't think it's a majority of those questions; admittedly I didn't look long but I'd guess ~90% shouldn't have windows.