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  • I don't really see any of what you describe as your experience on Server Fault (though, granted, I don't necessarily look at every question). My face-to-face contracting work with fellow sysadmins makes me feel that "sharing and mutual growth" are also the norm in sysadmin circles, too. Getting the word out is the problem I see w/ Server Fault. I've had fellow sysadmins tell me about the "hyphen site" time and time again, but I've yet to have a fellow sysadmin tell me about Server Fault. Commented Oct 21, 2009 at 19:43
  • @Evan: I've not seen much of it on SF per se, but those types of people wouldn't be participating there either. ;) I have seen it in person and in other communities where they will only share if you are already "in the know"... at which point you don't really need their help. Commented Oct 21, 2009 at 20:05
  • Again, as I mentioned, it could be that I just suck at finding good Admins to work with. Not all Admins are as helpful as your profile would indicate. Commented Oct 21, 2009 at 20:09
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    +1 for the Super User observations. SU still feels like it's inhabited mainly by programmers. I want it to be the site my mother goes to first when she has a computer problem, before she bothers me about it. As long as the front page is full of questions about things like mounting an ext3 partition in Windows inside a dynamic disk, that's not likely to happen. Commented Oct 21, 2009 at 21:07