It's probably because sometimes people share links to various utility tools in answers, maybe some of them are in that "can be used by hackers" category. Password recovery, system tweaks, etc. That's my theory anyways.

@Ooker Fwiw the duplicate link seems reasonable to me and contains the correct answer to my question as well. Plus it's not like either question is wildly popular, I'm sure the other 30 people who've seen this one in the last six months won't mind, ha.

Btw in general it's not a problem that it's on hold. It doesn't make it more difficult to find, or make it go away, or anything like that. The biggest effect is it just prevents new answers, which is usually the right thing to do anyways. So, there really isn't much issue with things like this.

@random Thanks. What if it's a non platform specific question about app usage? Sort of like questions about OpenOffice usage here, that aren't Linux, Windows or Mac specific. Are mobile apps generally treated a little differently than desktop apps?

(Btw I'm almost certain similar discussions have happened in the past, be sure to do some thorough research first, too.)

Yes this needs to go on MSE. However I will say, remove the two Ask* sites. I dunno about the Apple one but AskUbuntu is branded and is their official community support site (see ubuntu.com/support/community-support), it was made special and isn't getting merged anywhere. Also it probably goes without saying but unless you can make a really strong case here, like way more than you've got in this post, you won't get community support for this from those communities, and in any case it's a pretty safe bet that this isn't happening.

For the first case we could synonymize hack to but-i-probably-havent.