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Every once in a while, people ask for plain hardware shopping advice, which is off topic per our FAQ. However, there are probably countless forums that deal with hardware, and possibly even encourage …

I was having a discussion with @Gilles lately, whether to allow questions about OS X being virtualized. In essence, the Apple license forbids virtualizing certain products, but the majority of votes w …

https://superuser.com/questions/47150/does-anyone-use-elephantdrive-online-backup-for-personal-use This is simply polling for opinion. This is not a question that has a correct answer, but one that …

the system lacks a final bad-question-keep-for-reference state This is by design. Bad questions are only kept for longer if the answers are (or have been) somewhat useful. But even then, at some poi …

I just did what you proposed at the time you were writing this. Now, should I just edit the post, killing the second part and changing the meaning, or flag the question or just comment and ask the …

If you prefer, it could be closed as being not constructive, as we don't know what Microsoft is using and there's no objective definition of what "professionally looking" is. It's a safe bet to say t …

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 …

Simply choose Other… and just type in what you'd like us to do. We don't have such a close reason because it'd be used very rarely.

I would suggest that these kinds of comments should always be phrased like the following: Your question is off-topic here, but on-topic for xyz.SE. However, please do not re-post on the other site, y …

Similarly to people telling the OP to ask their question on Apple.SE, even if it's on topic here on SU, I think that there's a general problem with comments like the following: This should be on Serv …

Since the pre-release / beta software option wasn't used a lot, we activated two new reasons to replace the previously combined software / hardware recommendation option: Questions seeking for hardw …

It's been a couple of days since we're using the new off-topic close reasons, including: Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they tend …

This is now live. Use this option when… a question is clearly out of scope (e.g. about a web app), and it is too bad to be migrated to another site, or there is no target site for this question Be …

One of our current off-topic reasons reads like this: Questions seeking product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they tend to become obsolete quickly. Instead, …