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Anything about questions that were closed by community or a moderator
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Why was this question closed as "Questions seeking product, service, or learning material re...
Because it was. You're asking for a list, which generally doesn't fit into the Q&A format, of products not supported by that product. An alternate close reason might be that its too broad
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What's wrong with this question?
Basically the community consensus is that software recommendation questions are off topic for superuser. You can ask them on Software recommendations, as long as you meet the quality criteria.
There' …
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Question about computer software with 37 up-votes closed after six years?
Did a quick review of the question. Seems I closed an earlier version of it, but seems fine. I did have to prune a lot of the older answers, which weren't all that good.
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Why was my comparison question closed?
The easiest way to ask a good question is to have it about a real problem. Lets pick this question apart.
From your question
"This hypothetical setup would be a vanilla Debian installation with
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The process of closing a question is arguably rather hostile. Can we please find a better way?
tldr: That's how the site works, there's multiple mechanisms in place.
We need to balance between quality control and "user friendlyness". However there is essentially a need to close things that are …
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Question put on hold, but why? | Topic: Potential Hardware Solutions to a given problem
I closed that, and I felt that that it was a hardware recommendation question, amongst other things.
You're asking for 1. Hardware 2. You have a price range in mind. Its a hardware recommendation qu …
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Reevaluate closure of question 515115 (meaning of cylinder light on computer) – not a typica...
Indeed, another Meta post from a different moderator suggests that certain types of identification questions, such as those involving connectors, should not be closed.
Said moderator wrote a comm …
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Why has this question on BlueJeans people account inference been placed on-hold as off-topic...
Unclear what you're asking might be a better close reason I suppose
Please clarify your specific problem or add additional details to highlight exactly what you need. As it's currently written, it …
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How do I get my question reopened?
Editing isn't enough - the question still lacks clarity on what needs to be done.
So you have a template, sure but what's the data source? What do you want to fill up the files with? How do you want t …
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Is it opinion based to ask for reasons for a specific technical decision?
Its pretty much impossible to answer unless you're the person designing it.
You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face
The answer might be something l …
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Why was my question closed (351486)?
I'm personally a little torn on this one.
On one hand, there's almost no information there that would give a definitive answer.
On the other hand it counts as niche product - though the inability to …
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How is this question off topic?
I'd note I'm not posting this as a definitive modhatted answer, but I do believe the closure for the specific reason feels like a misunderstanding of the intent of the rules (that is to say, the spiri …
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Windows question closed as duplicate of Linux
Makes sense. Reopened. Edited out the possible dupe text, though I wonder if it would be handy as a comment
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The normal-appearing question closed with irrelevant reason
Well - its somewhat less than about it being about a UPS, and more about the california proposition 65 - in general, questions here are about the use of hardware and software, rather than legally requ …
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Request to Re-Open Question #331125
I didn't see it as being about microsoft...
I saw it as "Why would it be a good idea to move from what we know works, to unknown software, just cause someone thinks its a good idea" - which it isn't, …