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The trouble with this approach seems to be that sometimes questions which are off-topic now were on topic at the time they were asked. Also, since the questions are here and got answered, why bother?
Sounds broken to me. Logically, both, canceling up/downvotes and deleting / expiring close and delete votes should reinstate the voting status to what it would have been without these votes.
I may be somewhat late with this, but the datacenter operations aspect is missing completely, just as is sysadmin-related organizational stuff like best practices / ITIL. I also feel that each and every referenced tag needs a meaningful wiki summary to be able to serve as "further reading"
@MDMarra do you have links? I am not sure if I will take the time to do a posting at mSO, but if I do, I would like to make sure not to produce or encourage repetitions.
@MDMarra Maybe there is. But if commenting is really something which is considered a necessity, the box should be more nagging (i.e. show up with higher rep too) and include the comment field as a further hint for people who do not read popups.
@ShaneMadden I think there is a firm difference between a "LMGTFY" and a posted documentation reference with the relevant excerpt. I have no current examples, but I've got the impression that basic question tend to either be closed as "off-topic" due to being "unprofessional" even if the poster indicates professional use or get not much attention and answers with considerably less love. I have to admit to feel guilty for cold-shouldering them as well most of the time.
@ShaneMadden please note how I explicitly voted to not aggressively migrate anything but just facilitating an informed decision where it belongs - at the questioner's
@JackDouglas whenever I do, I leave a comment and possibly vote for migration. I also think that the current implementation of the migration feature is not adequate for the user's needs and hope it changes some day.
As this is the highest voted answer: who is going to tell the DBA folks to change their FAQ as there are clearly conflicting points? I do not think it makes any sense to leave clearly definable areas like "installation" or "backup & recovery" on topic in both sites.
