@Jenayah Furthermore it's not a one-person decision (ok, I mean, it can be) since most of the time this is done by vote. Call me naïve, but if it's a by the users, for the users thing, it falls in line with how I reckon SE works. Since the discussion was started on Meta, the question was reopened twice by a vote of 5 users (different each time, so 10 in total) and reclosed twice by solitary users.
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