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I searched Meta hoping for a direct answer to this one, but so far I'm only finding semi-related Meta questions.

Here's the sequence that led me to this question.

I saw this question: http://serverfault.com/questions/513768/2-port-dual-monitor-hdmi-kvm-switchhttps://serverfault.com/questions/513768/2-port-dual-monitor-hdmi-kvm-switch

Which I voted to close as Not Constructive (Shopping).

There was a related question on the side here: Recommendations for a two port KVM switchRecommendations for a two port KVM switch

Which I then went to and voted to close as Not Constructive as well.

Which also led me (again on the side links) to this one: Need recommendations for KVM with mixed PS/2 and USB portsNeed recommendations for KVM with mixed PS/2 and USB ports

Which I then went to and voted to close as Not Constructive as well.

So...the real question here is...should I even bother with this kind of "clean up"? Or is it simply busy work with no real benefit to the SF community? I figure there are lots of layers deep in situations like this that could cause questions from years ago that nobody even cares about today to suddenly show up in the Review area.

I searched Meta hoping for a direct answer to this one, but so far I'm only finding semi-related Meta questions.

Here's the sequence that led me to this question.

I saw this question: http://serverfault.com/questions/513768/2-port-dual-monitor-hdmi-kvm-switch

Which I voted to close as Not Constructive (Shopping).

There was a related question on the side here: Recommendations for a two port KVM switch

Which I then went to and voted to close as Not Constructive as well.

Which also led me (again on the side links) to this one: Need recommendations for KVM with mixed PS/2 and USB ports

Which I then went to and voted to close as Not Constructive as well.

So...the real question here is...should I even bother with this kind of "clean up"? Or is it simply busy work with no real benefit to the SF community? I figure there are lots of layers deep in situations like this that could cause questions from years ago that nobody even cares about today to suddenly show up in the Review area.

I searched Meta hoping for a direct answer to this one, but so far I'm only finding semi-related Meta questions.

Here's the sequence that led me to this question.

I saw this question: https://serverfault.com/questions/513768/2-port-dual-monitor-hdmi-kvm-switch

Which I voted to close as Not Constructive (Shopping).

There was a related question on the side here: Recommendations for a two port KVM switch

Which I then went to and voted to close as Not Constructive as well.

Which also led me (again on the side links) to this one: Need recommendations for KVM with mixed PS/2 and USB ports

Which I then went to and voted to close as Not Constructive as well.

So...the real question here is...should I even bother with this kind of "clean up"? Or is it simply busy work with no real benefit to the SF community? I figure there are lots of layers deep in situations like this that could cause questions from years ago that nobody even cares about today to suddenly show up in the Review area.

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Should we vote/close old Shopping questions?

I searched Meta hoping for a direct answer to this one, but so far I'm only finding semi-related Meta questions.

Here's the sequence that led me to this question.

I saw this question: http://serverfault.com/questions/513768/2-port-dual-monitor-hdmi-kvm-switch

Which I voted to close as Not Constructive (Shopping).

There was a related question on the side here: Recommendations for a two port KVM switch

Which I then went to and voted to close as Not Constructive as well.

Which also led me (again on the side links) to this one: Need recommendations for KVM with mixed PS/2 and USB ports

Which I then went to and voted to close as Not Constructive as well.

So...the real question here is...should I even bother with this kind of "clean up"? Or is it simply busy work with no real benefit to the SF community? I figure there are lots of layers deep in situations like this that could cause questions from years ago that nobody even cares about today to suddenly show up in the Review area.