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.