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Personally, I'd be terminating Linksys questions on sight and blacklisting the tag if we're going to judge questions based on the products in them.

I'll also reference this question - I had an answer migrated to Super User on it, so I don't want anyone to think that I'm just complaining about that.. but I was a little surprised to see a question with an accepted answer with consumer gear but clearly in a workplace setting (one network for employees) migrated.

Personally, I'd be terminating Linksys questions on sight and blacklisting the tag if we're going to judge questions based on the products in them.

I'll also reference this question - I had an answer migrated to Super User on it, so I don't want anyone to think that I'm just complaining about that.. but I was a little surprised to see a question with an accepted answer with consumer gear but clearly in a workplace setting (one network for employees) migrated.

For our FAQ reshaping, I think we need to decide something:

The current FAQ has no provision for disallowing these questions, nor does the current draft (at the time of this writing, revision 35). However, questions continue to be closed or migrated on a rather inconsistent basis.

• why was my question about mac mini servers closed? - 2010/11/18

  Both opinions were on display here; the votes on comments and answers favor those saying that Mac Mini servers are on-topic. The answer with the most votes is from Zoredache:

  Calling Apple hardware non-professional hardware is silly, particular since Apple sells it with a server OS, and redundant drives. Being a professional is about attitude, not about your hardware budget in my opinion.

• Virtualbox is losing the benefit of the doubt - 2011/08/15

  We landed in the middle on this one; that we should examine each case and evaluate based on whether the question appears to be applicable. John Gardeniers summed it up:

  Before rashly trying to eliminate all VirtualBox questions consider the context, as well as the content, of the the question. They are not all posted by hobbyists.

• Kill it with light mace: [windows-home-server] - or not? - 2012/01/19

  The consensus here seems to have been that home use products should not be tolerated. WesleyDavid wrote in the question:

  Let's ban all WHS related questions regardless of if a consultant has implemented it on a small business network. By it's design, it is for home networks, regardless of how someone applies it.

  And Mark Henderson wrote in the answer:

  If you're trying to do a port forward on a Belkin Home Router, I don't care if that router is sitting in a 10,000m² datacenter of a Fortune 50 company - it's off topic.

Along those lines, here's a discussion from the Mac Mini question:

On the Mac Mini question:

On the VirtualBox question:

On the Windows Home Server question:

And, on the Complex Home Networking question, which I'm getting to in a minute:

The other twist here is that the community seems to be just fine with wink-and-a-nod-just-don't-tell-us-it's-in-your-house standard.

For our FAQ reshaping, I think we need to decide something:

The current FAQ has no provision for disallowing these questions, nor does the current draft (at the time of this writing, revision 35). However, questions continue to be closed or migrated on a rather inconsistent basis.

• why was my question about mac mini servers closed? - 2010/11/18

  Both opinions were on display here; the votes on comments and answers favor those saying that Mac Mini servers are on-topic. The answer with the most votes is from Zoredache:

  Calling Apple hardware non-professional hardware is silly, particular since Apple sells it with a server OS, and redundant drives. Being a professional is about attitude, not about your hardware budget in my opinion.

• Virtualbox is losing the benefit of the doubt - 2011/08/15

  We landed in the middle on this one; that we should examine each case and evaluate based on whether the question appears to be applicable. John Gardeniers summed it up:

  Before rashly trying to eliminate all VirtualBox questions consider the context, as well as the content, of the the question. They are not all posted by hobbyists.

• Kill it with light mace: [windows-home-server] - or not? - 2012/01/19

  The consensus here seems to have been that home use products should not be tolerated. WesleyDavid wrote in the question:

  Let's ban all WHS related questions regardless of if a consultant has implemented it on a small business network. By it's design, it is for home networks, regardless of how someone applies it.

  And Mark Henderson wrote in the answer:

  If you're trying to do a port forward on a Belkin Home Router, I don't care if that router is sitting in a 10,000m² datacenter of a Fortune 50 company - it's off topic.

Along those lines, here's a discussion from the Mac Mini question:

On the Mac Mini question:

On the VirtualBox question:

On the Windows Home Server question:

And, on the Complex Home Networking question, which I'm getting to in a minute:

The other twist here is that the community seems to be just fine with wink-and-a-nod-just-don't-tell-us-it's-in-your-house standard.