How did this question survive becoming closed as off-topic?
It isn't a coding question. It even managed a total score of +14. Am I missing something here?
It's now closed, but to answer your question that question has been inactive for 2 years, so not many people have seen it.
Questions that have been inactive for that long won't get closed until someone either flags it or brings it up here on Meta.
Look at the date - a few months after SO was born. Stack Overflow used to be a somewhat different place, that brooked a broader range of "programming-related" questions. Ask a question like this today, and watch it get shot down in a hail of down and close votes.
When I happen on questions like this today, I vote to close it. I don't downvote it, because that feels unnecessarily punitive - this question was considered acceptable a few years ago.