Here on SF, that should rightly be closed/migrated as off-topic, but it goes to show that we needn't rigidly enforce "professional"; we can err on the side of being helpful.

The Chef community and company is notorious for being friendly and helpful. Many of them are not afraid to dig into your Puppet problem if they know anything about that. I recall one time where a kid stumbled into the Chef IRC channel looking for advice on cooking a vegetarian dinner to impress his girlfriend. Rather than being berated for asking in the wrong place, he got loads of helpful advice.

Yes, start small, and watch utilization as you add in chunks. Few systems scale linearly, so don't be surprised if you hit a wall. Monitoring systems are particularly because it is hard to make them completely orthogonal to the systems that they're monitoring. (For instance, adding a lot of checks to lots of systems could begin flooding your network layer.)

I can't upvote this enough.

That's an interesting perspective that I hadn't considered, @RaffaelLuthiger. Thank you.

Again, @HopelessN00b, it's less the language than it is the tone. Consistently your tone indicates that you have an awful attitude.

@HopelessN00b The point that it seems that you are not ACK'ing is that the site community does not appreciate the tone of your answers. We're all adults; nobody's going to be damaged or scarred because they saw curse words. If you were to take the emotion and inflammation out of your answers and comments, tact them up just a tad, you would have some of the best answers on the site. As it is, you're rubbing people the wrong way needlessly. Look, I want you on the site answering questions. I really do. But this site - a place for SysAdmins - has asked or told you multiple times to tone it down.

I agree with this answer entirely, but there is definitely an attitude problem on this site. I don't know what to do about it, but the seeing this continue to be an issue makes me sad.

At this point, I actually would be more in favor of "RTFM"as reason to Close than some of the dog piles I've seen in the last year.

I'm good with all of this.

@voretaq7 So we build up the Canonical question list and close as duplicate. With extreme prejudice.

@r.tanner.f I agree: It absolutely does not give them a free pass. But we can downvote, close, and edit without being hostile. ...Well, we should be able to...

I hate the site fragmentation. Rather, I hate that they're completely separate sites. If they were, say, views of the same question pool, I could dig that...