Welcome to the site! Please, do not use random text inside code blocks. :) meta.askubuntu.com/questions/15446/…

+1 because this is what I see everywhere! Seriously, even the English pronunciation does not end with an "o" sound... How can people write Ubunto?

See also: meta.askubuntu.com/questions/15446/…

I do the same when I talk about a program of mine, however I tend to write "I am the developer of RecuperaBit" at the beginning of my answer or before mentioning the program.

If you really think it is too localized, you can flag it as such. :)

@JacobVlijm oh mine, I didn't know that 1 rep users couldn't upvote. I do not remember the first site I entered here (maybe it's AU), but on all the sites I joined recently I always started with 100 rep "because we trust you on other sites of this network" hence I didn't think about troubles in upvoting.

«I've seen "on zero" for months» Coincidentally, I recently got a badge for having many zero-votes accepted answers and I was wondering what's wrong with my answers. :D

Yes and I have upvoted your answer. Much better now. :)

I definitely agree on enforcing requirements to prevent low quality answers.

I have already stated that I don't want to argue with anyone. That is not the point of my question. Besides: your previous comment is more of an answer to my question than the answer above, because it addresses the "why". :P Your answer (without the comment) is kind of like "it is so because yes". You should consider integrating the comment in the answer.

@JacobVlijm on a more serious note, the fact that a software is an alternative to another one is sometimes source of huge debates among people. I mean, there are people who do not consider GIMP to be a Photoshop alternative, just to make an example.

@JacobVlijm ah, well if you put it that way. So a correct answer to "Is there an alternative?" would be either "yes" or "no", without actually mentioning the alternative. A bit useless IMHO, but I agree in that case it would be suitable for this site. Still a bit borderline because that was probably not the answer the OP is looking for. :D

I understand that they are considered by someone to be on topic from the fact that the flag was declined. My question is "why", as explained in the title and in the body of the question.

«if you want to argue that they shouldn't be on topic here» My question is: why are they considered on topic since they clearly violate the rules about opinion based and broad questions. I don't care about starting arguments with anyone. If I get a valid motivation on why they are considered on topic here I'll accept that answer.

@Seth, ok point taken, but still too broad, opinion-based questions for recommendations do not belong here.

I think you are missing the fact that asking for "alternatives to X" is perfectly fine on Software Recommendations, as it should be. It is not fine here and I still can get why my flag was declined.