Agree. Really seems to be a general thing in some circles.

See stackoverflow etc were for a couple of years at least it seemed that more likely or not any really useful question/answer would be flagged/closed/something. I've seen less of it lately so either I developed a blind spot, google changed ranking, SO decided to stop doing this (I've seen some people trying to advocate common sense in meta.)

One of my favourites: an otherwise relevant question on networking being flagged of because the equipent in question was placed between two corporate networks and the rules specified that it had to be placed in a corporate network. :-/