Is it really so hard to conclude that a post regarding an inability to access the mysql CLI is looking for a way to gain access? I get it, you guys demand explicitly phrased narrowly scoped questions but the question here was still clear, if only implicitly.

@Iain As I have said before I don't have a choice in the matter, and now I'm too far gone to even think about rebuilding the VPS sans Plesk.

I now understand the extremely particular requirement of this community for an explicit question, however to say the question was nonsense is ridiculous. Every single person who read that post knew exactly what the 'question' meant - pragmatically what I posted was perfectly valid: there was no doubt, ambiguity, or nonsense of any kind. Plesk is the work of the devil - I get that, I know that, but this was still a real problem and as far as I could tell this was still the best exchange for the question.

@voretaq7 Seems fair.

I am a fully fledged Plesk hater, but I'm stuck with it for now. VPS procurement was somewhat out of my hands and subject to a strict budget. Why is a professional tone so important, though? The question was concise and contained the relevant detail, but not flippant or inappropriate. We're not trying to win business from each other here, so I don't see the need for full-on formality. I've read a thousand questions that were amateur, badly written, massively downvoted but were still answered and not closed.

I apologise for adding context, @Iain. Feel free to edit out the words you find offensive. I would argue that it is not using a web application however - most of my time is spend trying to counteract the webapp's weirdness in the terminal as was made clear in my original question. If there was a more appropriate exchange for this question I would have used it.

Thank you for your input and your edit! I am now starting to understand the exacting requirements of the community here. I still think that all the effort these users put into commenting and closing a useful question could have been better spent editing my question, but I'm splitting hairs now. Thanks again for your answer.

Thank you for your input, I accept the lack of explicit question appears to be the issue here. I suppose I assumed that the usefulness of what was written (and the fact it is implicitly a question by nature) trumps syntax, but of course syntax trumps everything in our game.