@Omnifarious, on the subject of who SF is for, perhaps you should consider that based on what you have written in your rather insulting and incorrect bio you don't even qualify to participate on SF. Please consider SU for future questions.

If you start going down that track where do you stop? Do you then ask why you need those feature? Why don't you use a different approach to solve the same problem? No, that's all irrelevant. The "why" of it is always the same - you're building software. The reasons for building the software isn't a factor.

If the code snippets are relevant then it's a programming question it belongs on SO. If you ask about getting information from a device but frame it without it being a programming question then it may well suitable for SF. Many of us are indeed devs as well as sysadmins but we need to keep the topics separate. I do understand it's not always easy to separate the different facets of writing applications but it must be done.

If nobody understands how they work it can only be due the complete lack of documentation. When it comes to understanding how SE works ignorance is an excuse, because it's being carefully cultivated.

I like that first one. While not really accurate, as it's too exclusionist, it should at least convey the correct message. I like the second one as well but unfortunately we all know that's never going to happen.

@Chris, I disagree (with the first sentence only). By punishing the perpetrators we would in fact be dealing with the disease.

Thanks for the explanation, even though it looks like another case of treating the symptoms instead of the disease. Perhaps there could instead be a penalty system for bad edits that get rolled back. Say 5% of the approver's rep. That might make people a little more careful.

If we start merging those where do we stop?

Care to give us an example question? Perhaps there is a better alternative than taking it to chat.

The problem is not the wording of the subtitle but the way it's being interpreted. We can do nothing about the latter.

To me that's even more vague than what we currently have and is likely to result in even more crap from SO. Remember, devs and admins generally don't share the same definition of "IT".

When confused about such things you should start by reading the FAQ.

Care to update us on this? Have the votes been reversed as they should have?

@Starfish, are you serious? Many users have thousands of posts. I doubt any of us have either the time nor the inclination to review everything we've posted in the past. That's just absurd. This is not a wiki. Nor is it a forum.