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Moderator coverage seems somewhat patchy with for example North America being well covered but Europe less so.
Are there any UTC times that would benefit from more moderator availability ?
It's pretty simple, and these things have happened before- the serverfault site is very narrowly scoped, and excludes questions from people who aren't already pretty familiar with what they're doing.
For example: I brew beer at home. I joined homebrew beta recently (a site for brewers). I don't know a lot, but when I ask dumb questions I get good guidance/answers, not a lot of static/heat.
I interpret a fair bit of passive aggression, personally
Well, ServerFault is/was/is allegedly aimed at and restricted to a professional audience, yet we get flooded with crap from people who don't know a damn thing, and haven't even bothered to read the many resources in the help and tour and about pages which specifically state server fault is for professionals, not for people who need halp learning to server.
So the irony of Server Fault, to me, is that you don't go there to get your question answered, until you can answer many of your own questions about how to be a Sysadmin?
Well... reality aside for the moment, SF is supposed to a site for professionals. Someone who doesn't even know how to view the logs on a server is very, very, very far from a professional. Which is the problem with that particular question. The aggression you're detecting is probably because SF regulars have been saying this for years, to no avail, and the ones who are still around (which is a minority, mind you) are sick of saying it.
Basically, if the person asking the question doesn't have enough experience to know the basics about troubleshooting, they're not a sysadmin. The question was closed because of that and only that.
What I'll leave you all with is the knowledge that we are in the middle of a serious Quality project, designed to improve the overall quality of questions on all sites including SF
it takes time but it's showing positive signs. SF is part of the rolling question rate limits we recently released; basically new users who ask bad questions get shut down for days/weeks/permanently.
@Haney My personal experience has mad me believe that migrations are only very rarely at all useful. If the person can't even put enough effort into asking the question where it's on topic, the overwhelming probability is that it's not a question worth migrating.
Whole reason my kick-in-the-balls-over-TCP/IP project never got off the ground. I could never figure out where to ask questions about it. Is it a programming problem, a sysadmin problem, a user problem? All three? Oh well.
It's trivial social engineering to get an online user to lick a live electrical wire, man. But no matter how hard I've tried, I never could quite talk someone into kicking themselves in the fun bits. :(
Yeah, but I don't want to have to talk someone into doing what they should have done in the first place. And some places have a law against helping people get out of the gene pool...