I've seen a rather high number number of off-topic flags that I have then marked as on-topic. In many cases I see close votes pile on in what could be interpreted as brigading.

On topic?
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**This question caught my eye** in particular: https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/82474/image-alt-not-showing-at-magento-product-page

The question asks "how can I add an alt tag to an image in a Magento product page"... and has been marked by 3 separate site users as **off-topic**. However, at the time of this writing there are **two answers**.

[According to our help document for the on-topic guidelines](https://magento.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic) this matches the top three points:

- It does not involve custom code
- It does not involve a third-party vendor
- No 3rd party developer can be contacted for support. 

So it looks to me like it is actually on-topic. Perhaps the close votes are trying to signify that the "fix" is not Magento-centric and this is a gray area? At what point do we stop helping locate where to place a change because the change itself is "simplistic"?

Off Topic?
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Let's review a type of question which I believe, by our guidelines, is likely off-topic. 

Questions about Varnish aren't too rare around Magento.SE - but questions specifically about Turpentine (an OSS 3rd party module by Nexcess) are very very rare. 

However, [they do have their own tag](https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/turpentine?sort=votes&pageSize=50) but they break the community guidelines:

- It involves custom code
- It involves a third-party vendor
- A 3rd party developer can be contacted for support

A question just posted referenced it in the title:
https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/82490/magento-turpentine-excluded-parameters-in-vcl-produce-incorrect-redirect

There are no answers at the time of this writing, and no off-topic votes at the time of this writing.

Getting to the point
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Which leads me to my point: 

1. Have our "on-topic" guidelines changed?
2. If so, do we need to update that document?
3. Is the document sparse for a reason? Should we be more explicit?

and lastly:

4. Is this question in fact off-topic? Why?

(I submit that this question is on-topic and have voted accordingly. But I would like the community to weigh in here.)

I realize that Q to A ratio is important for the overall health of the site, but let's be careful not to appear to be unhelpful in the process.