Please consider reopening What lubricants can be safely added to a laptop fan?
It was closed as "primarily opinion based", but the question is not an opinion-based question: "Are there any lubricants that are safe to use inside a laptop?"
The large number of upvotes also clearly indicates that this question is valued by our community.
IMO, it's a duplicate:
Agree. This should be re-opened.
And then closed properly as a product/shopping recommendation question as it's asking for suggestions on what type of product to use here.
I'm Andy, from Hardware Recommendations.
As the question stands, it should not be migrated to Hardware Recommendations.
The question, as I understand it, is:
Are there any lubricants that are safe to use inside a laptop?
There is also an implied:
What lubricant should I get?
This is not on topic. Lubricant is not hardware. Our Meta post on What is Hardware? has this to say:
Hardware is any primarily electronic item that can perform more than one task, designed to interface with, connect to, or be, a primary computing platform in day-to-day operation.
A primary computing platform is any primarily electronic item that can perform meaningful tasks on its own with minimal external support, and designed to be operated by a user, consumer or professional.
Lubricant doesn't fit this.
If you are going to change it to a question about what replacement fan to get, then you need to add more details about the laptop. Make, model, size of fan. A broad question such as "What fan should I get?" will be closed. If you've narrowed it down to a small list of fans you are considering, we can help. If you have unique requirements for your fan (ie. it spins and sings a jingle, but only on Tuesdays after a full moon), we can help. But, simply asking for a fan that fits your laptop will not work.
Finally, your question sounds like a technical support question, so I urge you to rework it, because we don't allow those either.
It is most closely a duplicate of What can be used to lubricate a rattling fan? (Many thanks to Techie007 for finding that question.)
However, it has received much more attention than that question, and many more useful answers.
Perhaps the best solution would be to keep it, and add a pointer in all related questions so our community can easily find the best (and most current) answers.
I'm not sure moderator random is acting in the best interest of StackExchange.
His/her quick response to my request for re-opening is snarky and quite unhelpful compared to how SE moderators are encouraged to behave.
Apparently, he/she closed my question, which has received many upvotes, for the wrong reason. Instead of apologizing and acknowledging his/her error, his/her suggestion is to re-open it and close it again for a different reason.
Although my question will surely get the best responses on this SE, every SE has "off topic" and "on topic" guidelines. As such, I have no problem if the consensus is that this question is off-topic on this SE.
But I'm not okay with random's statement that he/she should just re-open it and then immediately re-close it. Especially not for such a popular question.
Update: It's unfortunate that in response, "random" then publicly made statements that I made requests that I did not, and then another moderator took actions to remove all that evidence from public view.
