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Is it me or do most Spice Heads post questions/topics that are as bad as a user in a support ticket? Posting an open ended question, lacking information (OS, Budget, Constraints in general for them), jumping to an answer (they say they don’t know the answer to),

The average first reply is, so can you provide more detail, if not we answer with an equally vague response.

I’m thinking this is mainly an IT forum yet the questions posted seem to be user questions.

@the-spiceworks-team @darrelranf3339 @mike7926

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Gotta love the users you tagged.

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LOL, that Community guy, man.

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Could you be more specific? What are some of the questions you’re referring to. I’m also a little fuzzy on what “bad” means to you.

Maybe it would be easier if you posted your question as a Powershell script?

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Questions that are obviously ‘home user/consumer’ questions are removed. Questions that are extremely basic but related to work that an IT Pro does, are typically moved to the ‘newbies’ forum. Everyone has to start somewhere, so as long as the question is coming from an IT Pro (even a brand new one) are okay to stay in the community.

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Well even as a beginner IT person you’re faced with the plethora of User/Boss Q’s from day one so to then post on here the same type of question is a painful step back in hierarchy. IT people know the pet peeves and if you’ve read one thread on here you know what’s up. Or do people not read and just post Q’s, which brings up if they actually read the solution to their question (or possible solution)?

I mean I’ve seen some very informative and thought provoking threads, some I re-read for knowledge base but some don’t shine a bright light on IT or SpiceWorks at times and that is where I cringe.

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And I like to remind people… students are welcome when their questions are not about homework. It’s a community for anyone in IT (focus is SMB but everyone is welcome) and that includes people “trying to get into IT”, not only those already in it. High school students, more than welcome. Just remember that the context is real IT, not homework, not home use, etc.