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A couple of additional points to Iain's answer: Home use questions are off-topic because we don't want endless questions about how to host a website on a home computer, how to configure consumer rou …

I'm not personally motivated enough to look for old would-now-be-closed questions, but I think that if a question would likely get closed today, it's fair game for posting in the Vote to Close chat an …

I'm not sure about the others who voted to close, but for me it sounds like you're trying to get your iPhone to connect to your wireless router at home. As per the first section of the FAQ, ServerF …

I no longer work at the place where we used VBox on Ubuntu LTS for lots of our servers, so I've got no problem with helping close most of these.

If I had seen it, I probably would have closed it as being primarily opinion-based: how to explain something in a non-technical way is heavily dependent on the person you're explaining it to. The reas …

This is a case where Stack Exchange's desire to be nicer leads to confusion. I forget the explanation of why it's nicer, but details of why a question was closed are hidden from anyone with less than …

I usually pick "Not constructive" for shopping questions, because I think it's a better fit than "off-topic." It's worth keeping in mind that only one close reason is shown, but the 5 people who vo …

I haven't kept track, but we've only had the new close vote reasons for - I dunno - about a month? And today they've changed again, completely changing off-topic reasons with no explanation, no guida …

It was closed as being a "shopping question": Requests for product, service, or learning material recommendations are off-topic because they attract low quality, opinionated and spam answers, and the …