Timeline for Is a question off-topic, just because it is asked by a student?
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| Jun 27, 2019 at 21:06 | comment | added | Ron Maupin Mod | It is what the community of professional network engineers decided when proposing this site. They simply did not want to wade through a bunch of those questions when looking for answers because there are a glut of sites for those types of questions. It is simply not why this site was created from Server Fault. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 20:53 | comment | added | Mads Skjern | I really don't share your perception of education as something that is so different from the world of professionals, so that probably it's best to keep the two worlds segregated. To me it's a bit like if a school calls a network professional (which I have encouraged my school to do) and asked him to come and give a presentation, and then he answers, no, we deal with real world problems and you deal with something not so real, so I don't want to risk obstructing your idealised world view, so it's better if we don't mix. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 20:24 | comment | added | Ron Maupin Mod | @MadsSkjern, there are hundreds of sites on the Internet that cater to network education questions. NE is different, we cater to questions and answers for network professionals, but we do have some leeway for those looking to expand knowledge of network engineering, just not formal education questions. Server Fault is the same way, and their education question ban seems much more rigid than we have on NE. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 20:17 | comment | added | Ron Maupin Mod | @MadsSkjern, we will answer questions about how to do something or how something works (assuming the question is not too broad, or the subject or answer too large for this type of site), but we will not answer an "education, certification, or homework" question for somebody. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 20:15 | comment | added | Ron Maupin Mod | @MadsSkjern, "...arguing for a general ban on education and certification." That is not what the ban is. The question I linked above is certainly an education question, but it is a question about how to do something, not a question from a class, test, or homework. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 20:13 | comment | added | Ron Maupin Mod | "However IMO they should not be closed simply because the person asking is a student, even if he writes that he is..." That is not how it works. A question is closed based on the question asked, not that a person is a student. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 20:12 | comment | added | Ron Maupin Mod | @MadsSkjern, we also get questions for things like Selective Repeat ARQ/Selective Reject ARQ and Go-Back-N ARQ, which are not used in business networks, but TCP has some feature of those protocols. While is is useful to understand such concepts, they really have nothing to do with the mission on NE, which is, "Network Engineering Stack Exchange is for asking questions about professionally managed networks in a business environment." | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 20:10 | comment | added | Mads Skjern | Those subnetting questions should be closed IMO, but first of all because they are duplicates (though with different actual numbers), and secondly if it is obvious that it is homework. However IMO they should not be closed simply because the person asking is a student, even if he writes that he is, and therefore your example is not a good one when arguing for a general ban on education and certification.. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 20:00 | comment | added | Ron Maupin Mod | For example, we get a lot of question (closed and deleted, now) that ask us to subnet something for the OP. The way to ask it is something like this question. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 19:53 | comment | added | Mads Skjern | @Ron Maupin: Interesting idea to ban questions from students because supposedly there is such a big gap between theory and practice. Is there a place where I can read more about this? I am genuinely interested in seeing an example of what you mean, and to see in which way what I learn in school is not even valid outside of school. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 11:15 | comment | added | Teun Vink Mod | In addition to Ron's excellent answer: The main reason this clause was added, is to prevent this site from being flooded with mostly identical homework questions, for example about IP subnet calculation. | |
| Jun 27, 2019 at 10:56 | history | answered | Ron MaupinMod | CC BY-SA 4.0 |