In the past I supported answering WordPress.com questions here on WordPress Answers. However, now that we've lived with it a while I think our real value add has been to support the higher end users who need to drop down into code, things that WordPress.com users simple can't do.

What's more WordPress support does a reasonable job of answering WordPress.com questions but a poor job in general of answering the more technical questions we excel in answering. @Rarst's question about making it clear which site the question is about triggered me to write this. If it were simply a matter of making the questions clear it might be okay but that requires the asker to take action which they won't even know to do.

So I'm calling the question. Should we aim to refocus the site on self-hosted WordPress and ask StackExchange to help us make that clear to visitors, or do we continue to answer WordPress.com questions?

-Mike

In the past I supported answering WordPress.com questions here on WordPress Answers. However, now that we've lived with it a while I think our real value add has been to support the higher end users who need to drop down into code, things that WordPress.com users simple can't do.

What's more WordPress support does a reasonable job of answering WordPress.com questions but a poor job in general of answering the more technical questions we excel in answering. @Rarst's question about making it clear which site the question is about triggered me to write this. If it were simply a matter of making the questions clear it might be okay but that requires the asker to take action which they won't even know to do.

So I'm calling the question. Should we aim to refocus the site on self-hosted WordPress and ask StackExchange to help us make that clear to visitors, or do we continue to answer WordPress.com questions?

-Mike