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Is there a way to obscure/sanitize IPs or FQDNs? I don't care personally, but there are bound to be people that wouldn't use it unscrubbed even if the IP info was internal LAN info only.
I see. Where do you people find the time to learn and institute urbandictionary crap? Do I need to get a few IT interns for 6 months or something? (just bitter I didn't know it wasn't a typo)
BTW, I know this contradicts my request to filter out first questions by new users. The request was more of a way to ignore the plethora of crappy new questions. If there was a better way (maybe through your New Question idea) I'd be all for it.
+1 - I agree with the requiring the analytical badge idea or something similar. Overall, I see two issues...new user attraction, and user retention. Right now the site is failing at both it would seem. Sales folks will tell you it is much easier to retain a customer than attract new ones, so my vote would be to focus on retaining our "core daily contributors" while not ignoring new folks at the expense of the core group. Sort of like church, nobody likes to visit a church where the members don't care about visitors, it eventually is just a group of folks dreaming about the "old days".
Why would they get ignored? I'm not asking for it to be universally hidden for everyone. It would require something like the stackapp to really ignore it, which I'd assume most everyone won't actually be using.
Personally, I think "Anything in a home or development environment" in the FAQ should be changed to "Anything NOT about managing computer systems in a professional capacity." With "managing" emphasized. That would allow encompassing someone taking care of their 5 person garage startup and admins with lab environment questinos while still closing questions about "I need to allow inbound port 666 on my home router, how?"
@re: the badges...I was stating that you could do something like Chris is stating i his comment by saying "Earn enough rep to ask your first question and earn your first badge along the way!"
There are both the Analytical (now retired) and Informed badges that sort of handle your first idea. However, I do think it is worth exploring as well.
