I wouldn't have voted to close that question, I would have tried to edit it. I don't mind a good beginner question at all. A poorly asked question bugs me far worse then a question about basic networking. Unfortunately it seems like a lot of poorly asked questions are migrated when they should have been either edited or closed, or marked as a duplicate.
I think we need to try and think of a way to encourage people to edit or close bad questions instead of just transferring them somewhere else where they don't really belong.