First, it would be my position that all software that is commonly available and used by end-users should be on topic. This specific piece of software has always been declared "alpha" by the creators. That's partly because they're so far from their own goal. The software saw it's initial release in 1998. Over 20 years ago.
This seems like an somewhat eerie distinction because it's entirely subjective. Let's just take this article from Wikipedia,
The developers of MAME do not intend to release a version 1.0 of their emulator program[28] because there will always be more arcade games to emulate and thus the project will never be truly "finished." Accordingly, version 0.99 was simply followed by version 0.100.
We still have 16 questions on MAME
And the list of pre-1.0 software on my computer alone (list generated with dpkg -l | awk '{print $3, '\t', $2}' | grep '^0' | less) includes,
- camora
- dash
- i2p
- xfburn
- telnet & Linux NetKit (which includes telnet)
- ufraw
On the flip side of this, we have software that is always in beta and never can be released such as
- Debian Testing 610 questions: https://superuser.com/search?q=Debian+Testing+is%3Aquestion
And for Ubuntu, we constantly have people ask questions on Ubuntu +1,
- https://superuser.com/search?q=Ubuntu+18.10 (18.10 is released in Oct 2018)
Second, this is clearly an action made with prejudice. I was never made aware of even the conversation. After only 1 hour and one submitted answer the user (who doesn't like me) chose the mod's answer for supporting the close-hammer. For those watching this is the conversation in the chat that is/was allowed. Didn't want to put forward the effort to tag me, but did mention the conversation in chat!
This kind of stuff does not make for a "nice" community. This is about a specific user that doesn't like me.
Let's also look at this,
Before I vote to close a large number of questions from a single user, I wanted to get community input, especially since the closure reason isn't an official one. I don't want this to appear to be a vendetta.
There are 11 total questions on ReactOS. Most of which are still not closed. We even have a tag reactos that was created years ago!
Let's actually consider a policy here.
Thanks!