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Someone actually took the time to close my 16 years old question of that type. There wasn't any activity on it, and it had good answers. Some people are just bored.

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I've just had the same experience: last month someone decided it was a good idea to close a question of mine from 2010 because it was "opinion-based", asking me to "Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations. This will help others answer the question". The question, other than being 15 years old, had more than one thousand votes, 15 answers with positive score and a bunch of low quality answers. The question is still up on the site, just nobody can answer on it, but it feels hostile to me (and to the people who took the time to contribute answers) and made to accommodate the wishes of someone who cares about tidying up the place more than anything else.

I purposely deleted all of my Stack Overflow accounts for this reason. Tired of that site.

I can't quite remember, but don't you get mod points for actions like that. Someone looking to increase their mod level, or boost their points (is it useful on a CV [Resumé]?), might go chasing older questions.

Also, they have a really annoying "community bot" that revives v.old questions into the new question queue... it tricked me a few times, then I started to check it wasn't a community bot question before looking further (pretty moronic and anti-answerer behaviour imo).

You don't. Assuming that by "mod points" you mean badges, no badge listed on https://stackoverflow.com/help/badges can be earned by closing questions.

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