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Not necessarily adding a new answer, but one valuable reason to have it open is to be able to close similar question as duplicate to this one. It does seem to be a popular topic people ask based on the linked questions and number of votes on it.
Maybe not all the time, but I would say if a duplicate exists it's more valuable to use the dupe flag. I asked a similar question quite a while ago in case that helps meta.askubuntu.com/questions/8219/…
@C.S.Cameron The question wasn't recently closed. It was closed 7 years ago, then reopened and closed 3 years ago. You can see more details in the timeline, of the post
"it seems to me that the edge cases and corner cases have dominated the good advice here." I guess that's probably why it's getting closed as opinion-based. Some of the answers are more opinion-based or just needs more details about their opinion to make it more objective. But I do agree that the question should be opened.
@Catija I just double-checked each official flavour of Ubuntu, and I can confirm that all of them direct users to report bugs on Launchpad. I agree with Zanna that saying "... should be reported onLaunchpad" is more correct as it informs users about the platform in case they don't know about it. Otherwise, I quite like your recommended wordings, especially the "This question was closed because [...]" instead of "This question is off topic. [...]" parts as they sound more friendly.
@Paul They do work. But you need to use the URL to the gif file directly. In this case, it would be https://i.imgur.com/JQ6Hne1.gif. This GIF, though, is huge. I wouldn't embed it without resizing it first.
@terdon OP means the last 2 links are http instead of https in the contact page. The first one links to https://help.yahoo.com/kb/helpcentral which ends up redirecting to https://help.yahoo.com/kb/account. OP is asking to update all links so they directly go to the correct place instead of relying on redirects.
You can however edit the main answer and add some notice at the of the answer, for now, to mention that an answer is outdated and will not work after version XX.XX or some other reason. For example, askubuntu.com/a/256018/8698
To piggyback on the comment on that question, this makes it the 5th try apparently. In 2018 (although it was only mentioned in this question), in 2016, in 2014, and in 2012
