The moderation is ridiculous. Useful questions get closed all the time for nebulous "fit" reasons. My opinion is if the community thinks it's a valuable question by voting it up, it should stay.
I have found some useful information in the "dup" questions. It's a bit weird to discover that a useful answer is "closed as duplicate" but whatever, as long as I keep finding solutions to my problems, I'll keep going back.
The answer was not closed, the question was. This is not a bad thing, as it funnels everything towards one canonical location.
well the moderators are part of the community (voted in!), and have decided its off-topic. So the community did decide to keep the question out.