Whats really being taken in consideration to close a question? Is it based on how "ambiguous, vague, incomplete, overly broad, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form" or how dumb/stupid the "voters" think the question is? I asked this question, which I think is pretty valid. Even one of the mods thought "it had value in it" and even answered it. What happened? Close about 12 hours later. http://serverfault.com/questions/406153/what-to-do-after-a-fresh-linux-install-in-a-production-server While the question could be a little "broad" you dont actually need to read "whole lots of books" to answer it, its current answers prove it. I think its a valid question that most starting professionals did to themselves at one point in their career. But hey, who voted to close down the thread? A 20 years SysAdmin , Principal IT Engineer at a company, a SysAdmin with 15kRep a 6krep user and a 20years + Linux user. Since it got closed I copied all the answers into a file because I found useful every single answer and I dont want to wait for all of them to vote delete the question sending all that valuable information to the trash can. I believe the quality of the information thats being asked/posted should be taken in consideration before closing a post. 5 persons bookmarked the question which leads to me think that 5 people are interested in the answers or did have the same question themselves.