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I thought this focused the issue on mechanical design and material science, which to me, is outside the site's scope. …

But a good answer would likely be out of scope if extensive knowledge or procedural information is required, or there are endless possible underlying problems. …

With Hackintosh, there's the argument that it is unsupported, so out-of-scope on that basis (it's not designed or tested to work on other hardware, so there isn't a "right way" to make it work; that comes …

I think that is the wrong way to frame it, and not the basis on which a site scope decision should be made. Legality None of this comes under criminal law, so it isn't even a question of legality. … Most questions of scope differentiate technical factors to define what is within SU's bailiwick. Devices other than computers and their peripherals are off-topic. …

How is that different from questions asking how to cheat your ISP? Those are also about circumventing the terms of use associated with the product or service. Why does differentiating a civil cont …

Excellent question. The bottom line is that edge cases are determined by the community. If enough people think it's off-topic to vote it closed, and not enough people then think it's on-topic to reo …

My reaction was pretty similar to djsmiley2k's. The vast majority of questions in the list would either fit well within existing sites' scopes or are bad questions for the SE model. The best ratio …