This reminds me of Can 'u' and 'i' part ways with Stack Exchange?. I'm wary of autofixes, especially for low-volume errors. Easily searchable mistakes even kind of make it easier for us to find posts in need of editing.

@DanielBeck has nicely illustrated why the FAQ's on-topic/off-topic summary is not a good place to write an essay. No matter what games you play with wording, there'll always be some edge case out there that generates complaints and requires mod intervention. Since we have to rely on human judgment -- both users' and mods' -- anyway, we might as well keep the FAQ short and sweet.

If and when this is changed, the off-topic help text ("Questions on Super User are expected to generally relate to computer software or computer hardware, within the scope defined in the faq.") should also be changed.

@DanielBeck, yep, exactly!

I feel like half my MSU activity is posting this link, but it is once again relevant: How literally does SU take "not about a shopping or buying recommendation"?

I don't see how, if at all, my answer doesn't address your use case. Simply go to chat and click the "create new room" button, then manually post a comment that contains a link to the room. Are you actually asking for the system to do what it's already doing, but earlier? @barlop

Technically, the only person who can answer this is the person who performed the close (Diago). I agree that merely restricting your question to China shouldn't make it too localized, for the reasons you gave. However, you restricted it further, to Mac App Store users. I don't know how many of them there are in China, but that could be the reason. I'm not sure that app stores are on-topic for SU, but since he didn't close as off-topic, I guess that's not too relevant.

I don't think so. The answer could change from day to day, and even if it doesn't, I don't see the value in simply reporting total numbers without the context of what kind of textbooks they are.

I always thought the FAQ did reflect this, and that the community/mods here just ignored the rule. To be honest it's always kind of discouraged me from using SU.

This covers some of the same ground as How literally does SU take "not about a shopping or buying recommendation?"

I'm still not 100% on board with this answer, but I can see that I'm in the minority. I guess it fits my usage pattern; most of the time, finding out how computers work is much more important to me than getting the absolute best answer.