About a year ago, after reading the FAQs, I'd posted a question ([link][1]) here.

Apparently it wasn't a very good question because it got closed shortly thereafter. The reason was that it didn't _"demonstrate reasonable business information technology management practices_".

Well, In my own view it was a question with an interesting core and apparently other people found it helpful because of the useful answer and upvotes over time. This led me to believe it *could be fixed* to meet the question standards and add something to the list of good questions of this site.

So today, excited to improve a community, I flagged it in need of a moderator's attention explaining my situation:

>This question was closed a long time ago, because "Questions should demonstrate reasonable business information technology management practices." I can't really identify with that reason, plus after all of those initial downvotes it has received upvotes over time and there is an interesting discussion and a +3 accepted answer on it. What else has to occur to make this a good question?
– Maneating Koala

But then:
>**declined** - votes and answers don't matter. You are trying to do something your tool is not designed to do, so I agree with the close votes.

Wow, that was a little harsh.. and of course this came with an additional -1 on my question. But of course I'm not so familiar on this SE site, so I might just not know the way this particular community works.

I can't believe it's not fixable. I don't understand how it's relevant wether someone thinks it should be closed because I'm using a tool wrong, instead of commenting on my question.

I'm not very active on this SE site. I've skimmed through the FAQs again, but wouldn't say my question isn't bad.. I would just like to contribute and I think the core of my question could be a good start. Is this possible?

  [1]: http://serverfault.com/questions/665191/whitelist-elastic-load-balancer-based-on-ip