@JohnGardeniers: Btw, I would not call this "asking for a programmatic solution": This is an actual system setup case I have here with a team. IF every line in a .profile or .login means it's a programmatic solution we can close a lot of questions as being off-topic here. Imho, lots of questions are closed much too early. The mechanism with 5 votes required is flawed as the user base grows.

@JohnGardeniers Yes, that's why I'm tempted to give it a try and copy it to StackOverflow. Currently I feel like it will be totally random whether its going to be answered, lie dormant, be migrated, or closed. I put it on serverfault because I was hoping the more experienced sysadmins have had similar cases/request. Maybe I should ask to even migrate my own question to StackOverflow - but flagging it as "offtopic" and risking it to be closed seems....too risky.

Imho, the first sentence is a gross oversimplification of real life, but the second has merits and might be good reasoning why what I proposed is not feasible to implement. Although I would assume that a db driven site can catch these cases. This depends on how the DB's are organized, and Chris S already hinted in his comments that what I proposed is hard to do given the current schemas.

Hopefully the work would be a one-time effort, while without any improvement on this, the ongoing effort for people to get good answers (and to find good questions) is accumulating...I'm not necessarily an advocate of crossposting itself, but something needs to be done, imho.