Now Ok, Lets do it. Lets
Get rid of the EOL close vote.
Giving you my Reasons why, we should:
Yikes, No one really cares anyway. Right? http://meta.askubuntu.com/a/5612/47291
Unappreciated, Old and obscure questions get ignored and/or downvoted, so why should we try and help someone upgrade if they will hate us for it anyway, not that helping one person to understand upgrading is important will help the internet as a whole, because all in all it's just another bot in the net. Who cares if a Pͤͬw͗́̊͒̾͑̽onͯ̀ͫ̎͐ͫie̋́͊ͫ̍͂̿ ̽̊ͫ̚aͫͪ͗t͑̿̊e͋͐̐̌ ̈Ŷ̋ͪ̐̀ͯouͪ̇̈ͧ̚rͤ̏ͧ ̆̅͊͐ͯ͌ͪh̃ͬͯ̃̉̈o͋̓ͣm̍̈́ė̍̃̔ͥ ̃ͪf̆͆oͬ͂͋̽l̊͊͌̇̚dĕrP͕̟̜̝̖̳w̶͉͙̭o̦̟̺͟n̫͚͈i̪̥͔̝͖̥̼e̖̩͓ ̧a̗̘͇͇̪͖͇͢t̻͍͓̰͓͇͟e̘̪̖̖̼̥ ͉͚y͉͈̟̜̖͢ͅo͇͓͉ur̻̰̥̬̪͙͝ ̠̙̤ho̰͎̭̳̻͈̲͡m̨̻͙e̢͇̱ ͉͚̦̻fo͟ld̬̳͉͝e͉̮̩̼̪ṟ̣, or someone set us up the root kit.
Next, "Linux is about choice" Right? <!-- http://islinuxaboutchoice.com/ --!> It is free, and open source, and I am basically
Going to do what ever I want with it™ so why not use a old version and ask questions about it?
Like Everyone thinks that the Close Reasons are absolute, and that there can not be any exceptions.
Yep, People think that if something was closed, everything like it should be deleted and purged: Remove EOL tags , Could unanswered questions regarding EOL releases be removed via script?
Duplicates - it is better to find a duplicate of the question: Is it ok to mark EOL questions as duplicate?
Now It is clogging up the close queue, so it is not helping us "clean up" the site, it actually may be hurting our efforts in other areas.
Getting an extra close vote to separate Bug's and Development version reasons - after all we asked for more in the first place: Can we have more than 3 custom close reasons, pretty please?
Really people that ask probably all ready know they are on an old un-supported release
Also it is a major reason I have not been using the close queue lately
And I like an interesting challenge, maybe we could try and run Steam on 9.04?
Denying answers isn't forcing anyone to do anything.
Yes, this may be a bit too overly negative, and untill now I've been arguing the other side, but I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling