The sites wouldn't merge, but we'd have no basis for which to move the amateur questions anymore, and a lot of them definitely hurt the site to a certain extent.

To add to what Zoredache is saying, I certainly enjoy -not- having to look at superuser.com worthy questions all day on the serverfault.com front page. I don't have a very impressive rep here, but I wouldn't stay if the two sites were merged.

Yep, this is a useless rule and reminds me of "Your username must have at least X characters" No it doesn't!

Completely agree with this. We need to emphasize that this site is for professionals.

What people "need" to do is go with what works. Which, right now, is accepting good content and deleting bad content.