There is also the element that what features are in what software is tied to a specific point in time. Tomorrow, the information will be outdated.

The question asks for a product that meets certain criteria. I'm not seeing any technical question. Can you clarify how you view this as not a request for a product recommendation?

When a comment is flagged, I wasn't aware that the commenter could see any indication of that. When you say "assuming the commenter doesn't catch on", does the commenter actually get some indication, or do you mean a longer term effect that the commenter sees their comments disappearing and gets the hint that they should take more responsibility for their own cleanup?

They might not think to include the version within the question, but typing "ubuntu" in the tag area presents the major tags, and alerts them to the availability of version tags. If we eliminate those tags, most questions will undergo a delay while users ask for clarification.

@terdon, for our Linux "pros", yes, you can easily change kernels, DE's, etc. Our experienced users would have no problem with fewer tags that are correctly targeted. However, novice users don't do that and don't have that familiarity. They install what's bundled with the distro and struggle if they encounter a problem. There's value in ensuring that they provide as much specific detail as possible, and the experienced users can sort it out. (cont'd)

It seems like the type of thing that would invite guessing and opinions more than fact. Do we really want people relying on advice from random users here, rather than asking the company directly about their wording and how they interpret it?

I'm surprised by the last paragraph and comment. I would have thought interpreting what's allowed by a license would be off-topic. I thought we make exceptions for certain cases, like Windows and open-source, because we have plenty of users who regularly deal with that, or even manage site-level licensing of some of the common applications, so it's available knowledge. But interpreting the license wording on a random application is more of a legal or contract terms issue rather than a technical one. (cont'd)

If the question is just floating a brainstorming idea, that is too open-ended. It is more of a discussion topic than something with a specific right answer that can be fully addressed with an in-scope answer. The site isn't designed to provide general learning about a subject. In general, it is hard to write a good "is it possible?" question. A good one will be much more detailed, focused, and cited than your example. To write such a question, you kinda need to know all of the surrounding knowledge, and the question is a specific hole in that knowledge.

You received several great answers. Let me add one observation. "I asked if something was possible". That's usually a bad fit for a Q&A site. If it has already been demonstrated to be possible, you should have found some citations when you researched it first, and the question can refer to those citations and ask for clarification on specific points. If it is something that is or isn't possible on an obvious technical basis, it isn't clear how, or at what level, to answer so that it will be useful. Answers can range from "yes" or "no" to a textbook, so it is too broad in that sense. (cont'd)

@Ramhound, people likely read that as "nobody in particular", i.e., not a specific user like the OP.

But where does it belong if it's off-topic here is the complex mess described in allquixotic's answer in your link. The [amazon-ec2] tag wiki excerpt contains "Web service questions are on topic here only if the question is about the operating system or using a PC application hosted there". Would it be appropriate to add similar wording to the [google-cloud-platform] wiki?

I can't lay my hands on the Meta question, but I recall this being addressed in another question besides the one you linked. The gist of the answer was that if the question concerns the cloud platform as a hardware resource extension of your computer and is about the application running there that would be on-topic if you were running it locally on the PC, it's generally on topic at SU. Questions about dealing with the cloud platform, itself, are off-topic here. (cont'd)

The underlying problem is that the question is poor. Without specifying the browser, the question is either too broad or a request for a product recommendation, or something that can technically be answered with the original version of that answer.

@Andreas, I agree with n8te. The original answer content was an answer to the question, just not a very good quality one. It wouldn't qualify for either flag. It was technically an answer, so NAA doesn't apply. VLQ is reserved for posts that contain nothing that can even be improved. Flags are generally for situations that require moderator intervention; things that can't be handled by the normal user tools. The original answer content could have been downvoted and/or commented, which is appropriate for issues of general low quality (mods don't judge quality). (cont'd)