Timeline for What should our FAQ contain?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:48 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://workplace.stackexchange.com/ with https://workplace.stackexchange.com/
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| Apr 12, 2017 at 7:31 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ with https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/
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| Apr 12, 2012 at 13:33 | comment | added | jefflunt | Alright cool, I can see the wisdom in this. | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 6:11 | comment | added | weronika | If your worry isn't that those questions are off-topic but just that they it's not "practical to answer every version of that question that can exist", I think we can wait and see. If not too many of those questions get asked, we're fine. If not many get answered, we'll start closing them as not a good fit for the site. If so many get asked and answered that they start overwhelming the other content or otherwise get annoying, we can decide what to do about them then. | |
| Apr 12, 2012 at 5:15 | comment | added | jmort253 | Eventually, we will draw the line. Career questions weren't always off topic on Programmers. They only became off topic after seeing different versions of the same question countless times. Let's accept these for now, and when we see a pattern, we'll close them. Just focus on making sure they're good Q&A questions. | |
| Apr 11, 2012 at 18:46 | comment | added | jefflunt | Do we want to document all the possible career paths for every industry that someone might inquire about, at every level of experience? I get why this can be a place to collect questions that are off topic elsewhere, but I don't see how it's practical to answer every version of that question that can exist. Maybe I'm wrong on this, so I'll happily accept your down votes if you disagree, but I don't see how that particular kind of career advice is useful, practical, or useful to more than the person who asked it. | |
| Apr 11, 2012 at 18:25 | comment | added | Zelda | I can't agree with this. If it's industry specific, tag it. Many problems in the workplace are industry specific (for instance as an IT person I don't deal with my company's Safety Inspector often), that doesn't make them any less workplace related and that doesn't necessarily mean there's a better site to post them on. | |
| Apr 11, 2012 at 17:37 | comment | added | Shauna | They're off topic on serverfault. Per SF's FAQ - "If your question[...]is not about...Career, salary, personnel, employment, or formal education..." Part of the reason for the creation of workplace.SE is because such questions as above-linked are off topic on the other sites. | |
| Apr 11, 2012 at 17:15 | comment | added | jefflunt | The closest match appears to be serverfault.com - specifically built to be a place for IT professionals. | |
| Apr 11, 2012 at 17:02 | comment | added | siamii | IT specific career questions are off topic on programmers. If they are off topic here as well, then where are they on topic? | |
| Apr 11, 2012 at 16:05 | history | answered | jefflunt | CC BY-SA 3.0 |