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Delete away, for my money. I note that locked questions can't be delete-voted, either; if you don't want to delete it you might consider removing the lock so the community can express itself in the normal way.
Please, read what I wrote. We, too, wish to judge the questions on the quality of the question, and the quality of the questioner is an important factor in that, whether you like it or not. I can point you to any number of questions I've tried to help with, where we ask for some diagnostic information, and the questioner then says "how do I find that out?". At that point, you have to start worrying about a huge pile of professionally-normal things the OP may not have done. Life is too short to bring the whole world up to speed; we're here for the people who are already running.
@user121391 you are right, the question does not change between those two cases, per se. The person asking it does - one is a hobbyist at home, the other is a professional being paid to maintain this equipment. The latter person tends to ask questions that are a lot more relevant to this site than the former, so we use the information in the question to distinguish the two. Sure, you can lie, and say your hobbyist NAS is really at work, but it'll all come out soon enough, when we ask for some piece of technical information, and you have to ask us how to find that out.
@JennyD congratulations on a grasp of period English that probably exceeds that of 95% of those native to the sceptred isle. I knew we Brits were comparitively poorly grounded in other people's languages, but this is just embarrassing.
+1 what Sven said, also what Katherine said. Our mods are called upon to be experts on local community ethics and etiquette; lovely as they are, expecting them also to be experts on every aspect of sysadmin is a little unfair (though no doubt they all have substantial expertise in some fields of that, too). When you flag, make it as easy as possible for them to follow what you're thinking, and why! Also, buy them a coffee.
It would be hugely helpful to others, if they learned to carefully check their typing before posting. I've answered questions like that before, too. My normal approach is to downvote the question (for lack of investigation) and upvote the answer (even if it's by the person who posted the question).
That would certainly get my vote (no pun intended). Sometimes I'll leave a breadcrumb in the comments, but any question that deserves a downvote, or close vote, doesn't also deserve a formal answer.
Yes, but only by using containerisation in production. It's not a price I'm willing to pay for all but a very few prod environments, but I agree with you that many others seem to be.
@ParthianShot I agree that it seems odd, but I'll look at this from another angle: what do you think should happen? Should we close the question? Should the OP delete it? It cannot be answered in its current form, and I, for one, don't want it hanging around for ever. Of the tools we have available to us, accepting an interim answer makes most sense to me; I'm perfectly happy to be told we should do something else, but not that it should be left open as-is on the offchance the problem returns.
@modiX I agree with your caution, but it's axiomatic in sysadmin that it is very difficult to fix a problem you're not having. If this problem doesn't recur, the question will remain open forever because in its current form it cannot be answered (or, more likely, it'll get closed, for the same reason). You may not be aware that an acceptance isn't forever; the OP can come back as-and-when the problem recurs, un-accept the current answer, and update the question at that time.
