Artificial intelligent assistant

Define "Shopping" Questions Obviously the following constitutes a "shopping" question: > What is the best directory server? (eg. FreeIPA, AD, etc.) But, what about the following question, does it constitute a "shopping" question? > I am looking for something to allow me to centralize logins across workstations and servers? Any ideas?

I have found that if you turn these questions about sixty degrees thataway, you can get an answerable question:

> When looking for something to allow me to centralize logins across workstations an servers, what sort of features should I be looking for?

This gets it away from any odor of product-recommendation, and instead delivers a feature-list that can be checked against independently researched products.

The big problem we at ServerFault have with anything that even smells of recommendations is that there is almost never one true answer. Secondly these questions attract long-tail answers months/years after the original post that look like this:

> You might want to take a look at $myproduct. It does that kind of thing and just might help!

Which is spam we then have to smite.

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