@tombull89 You can't say you welcome newbies but only "professional" ones. People arrive from Google seeing specific topics are covered and ask about those topics. On SO if I'm asking about C#, I'm on topic. On SF if I have a question about Apache, am I on topic? Only if it's a "professional" question? You need to give novices a starting place.

@tombull89 ServerFault's problems don't stem from StackOverflow; they stem from a bad user model. Newbies google things and find SO or SF. Jeff Atwood got the importance of newbies: blog.stackoverflow.com/2008/09/podcast-23 SF's problem is this: i.imgur.com/olhEvMX.png

This change is just sad. It's a classic case of moderators turning their noses up at new users.