As you might guess, I'm asking because it recently happened. I wasn't too sure if I was better to ask it here or on the Stack Overflow meta (since it also serves as the Stack Exchange meta site), but after reading the accepted answer of this similar question on Meta Stack Overflow, I thought I should ask here.

I got into a (relatively calm) argument with Diago, who's probably an all-around great guy, since he's a moderator on both Super User and Meta Stack Overflow. However, I believe he's pushed the envelope a little when it came to my question, that I'll expose here.

In my question What's the difference between i5 and i7 in MacBook Pros?, I exchanged several comments with him. He decided to close it because it appeared subjective and argumentative to him, and that there is no way to answer the question objectively.

When I disagreed, he told me I should read the FAQ; which I did, and I did not find any offending point. My question is about computer hardware, and is not a shopping or buying recommendation since I already own a MacBook Pro with an i7 processor. I did not realize this could be in question until he mentioned it a few comments later, after I rephrased the question in a comment that could indeed induce confusion about if my question was a shopping recommendation or not (though, I can assure you, it's not: as I have already mentioned, I already own an i7 MacBook Pro).

As of the subjective side of the question, I suppose the subjectiveness of a question is indeed subjective, because I still don't see it. I mean, what I asked for could be (and was) answered in terms of raw data–where's subjectivity when all there is to do is to compare numbers? It wasn't even about prices.

Besides having my question closed, I was also accused of misleading readers into believing the i5 processors offered in MacBook Pros are hyperthreaded–which I actually genuinely believe, as does MacWorld, MacWorld UK, The Mac Observer, PCWorld, Tech Radar, Apple themselves (scroll down to the Hyper-threading paragraph) and probably a myriad of other sites I'd know if I visited more than the first page of Google results for macbook pro i5 hyperthreading. Intel does list mobile i5 processors with hyperthreading, so it clearly is possible that Apple uses them.

This is even the actual reason of my question: I was surprised that i5 had hyperthreading, and I was left wondering what i7 had better than i5 since both are hyperthreaded dual-cores.

So, what should I do? Was I being subjective, wrong and stubborn from the beginning, or was there really a misunderstanding and the question deserves to be reopened (even though it's already answered)? How can you determine if a question is subjective, even before trying to decide if it's a "good subjective question"? Is there a way I could edit my question that would leave out any kind of subjectivity there could have been? (I've already edited it a few times, even after it's been closed; if you're curious you should have a look at its history.)