### The “tree” you posted about.

Your question [that was closed][1] is pretty much off topic from the get go; screenshot at the bottom for those who can’t see closed questions:

> I read the [SANS Internet Storm Center blog][1], but while the
> information there is often useful, the RSS feed has some problems.

The rest of the question is on the same note. I believe I commented on this question when it was open and I stated that as a web developer who also does Linux systems administration, I can tell you that RSS feed management is a headache.

If a feed is badly managed it can result in malformed content. In many CMS setups there is a field for specific RSS data to avoid automated systems mangling content. But many times those fields are left empty by lazy content administrators and the systems—because it needs content—defaults to the next fallback which ends up in mangled content.

Which is a complicated way to say: Human sloth and laziness results in broken content. So you need to contact the site admins to see if they are aware of this issue and if they can fix it.

### The problem of that specific “tree” in this “forest.”

That said—and I believe I said this in a comment that are now deleted—this kind of question is off topic here. How can anyone here help you fix a remote site’s RSS feeds? What exactly is the question? Yes, the RSS feed is broken and yes the website has created a broken RSS feed. And what else?

There’s nothing hostile about that question being closed… But I will say I am fairly confident about my leaving constructive comments on this specific question. So perhaps the larger issue is the way comments are typically wiped clean from closed question.

I can understand why since off-topic questions can often lead to a chatty comment area where people are trying to clarify or politely answer and that might seem like a pile of nonsense to a moderator, but maybe there should be better selective pruning of comments on bad questions to apply context?

But you also claim this:

> Provide some mechanism to dispute a question being closed.

Yes you do. Look at that question again. In the list of options—next to “Share” and “Edit”—is a “Reopen” option. And that is a mechanism to reopen your question.

But as I said, there’s no way I can imagine that specific question being reshaped into a way where it would be reopened and stays open.

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  [1]: https://superuser.com/questions/977629/is-there-any-way-to-fix-someone-elses-rss-feed
  [2]: https://i.sstatic.net/51vBz.png