@Sven I'm having trouble telling if this is complaining about the question being closed... over a year ago ... or an attempt to repost/promote the question here, since it didn't get the reception he wanted on the main. Hence, the close vote.

This was off topic and horrible on the actual Server Fault site. It's even more off topic and more horrible on Meta Server Fault.

For my part, I don't really have any hard feelings about the way Shog handled this, and I don't believe him handling it "better" would have changed things for me. Less drama, probably, which is always a good thing, but I think that as soon as I stepped back to look at all the effort I was sinking into the cleanup I was doing, I'd have come to the same conclusions I posted in my question above. I think the real problem here is the vast difference between SF and the rest of SE, and the fact that there is no active Community Manager "assigned to" the SF community to help bridge that gap.

@Shog9 I have no idea what you're referencing, and no desire for anyone's protection. I've posted my response to you in the other thread. I am only willing to do the moderator job as it should be done, and only willing to participate in the Server Fault community on the premise that it is a professional community for systems administrations professionals. If either of those things are a problem, proceed to suspend or delete my account as you see fit, but either way, I won't return until next week, which should be enough time for you to come to a decision.

@Hyppy Also, questions beyond a certain age display "(too old for migration)" in the close dialogue.

@ShaneMadden Well, for whatever it's worth, my entire tenure as moderator has been one big cleanup effort, and it's both deeply counter-intuitive and extremely demoralizing that cleaning up clear-cut, off-topic content from years ago should require community discussion before hand. "Here's a mod diamond, but before you use it/do what you said in your campaign, discuss it first on meta, even if you just did."