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Over the last months (years?), we've definitely changed our minds and raised our bar when it comes to shopping (or product) recommendations. I'm looking for a simple yet effective software to wate …

Thanks for pointing out the other questions. They've been closed accordingly. If you look at the other examples you linked to, you'll find that the most answers just consist of links to resources. Th …

I would like to start off with the "negative" aspect of questions being closed. Yes, I agree that the [closed] might look negative and can scare away people. The team acknowledged that – and they are …

Could we have fixed this question […] encouraging the user to edit or rephrase the question himself? This is mentioned in the banner below: Also, commenters have been very verbose, including Darth …

There's not a lot to fix here. As far as I can see you've phrased the question correctly. You even specifically say: i.e. the answer should be applicable in any case; I'd like this question to pro …

In January 2012, I didn't happen to be a moderator yet. Since the ♦ is added to the user names wherever they're displayed, this also retroactively affects all "closed as" messages, leading to: cl …

It was closed because it's been cross-posted, and there's no point in having questions accumulate answers on both sites, where they diverge and the information is spread across the whole Stack Exchang …

Who defined what is "most common"? For that you'd have to run surveys with a representative sample of people in a representative sample of countries and then ask them how they would pronounce the four …

Your question does not relate to any actual computer hardware or software issue, and it's asking about best practices that are common for system administrators. There are two issues with this: Aski …

In fact, "what's a good free GUI zip client for windows" is a quite bad question for Super User and would probably be closed rather fast, as it's not constructive and asking for a product recommendati …

I think this is a borderline case. I probably wouldn't have voted to close. It apparently doesn't violate any rule, as far as I can see. But, in some way the question is very broad (you could talk f …

I voted to close as not constructive, but you can substitute with off topic as well, which would probably better suit the actual question. The question is neither about computer software nor hardwar …

Please take a look at our FAQ: You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push …

That is the way to go. You can always edit your questions into better shape. Per our FAQ: Closed questions cannot be answered, but are eligible for improvement (and eventual re-opening) through ed …

I don't see a problem with this post, so I've reopened it. It's specific enough, describes the problem in great detail, and also includes what you've already tried to solve it (and why that didn't w …