My thanks to Josh also. I feel, though, that we shouldn't rush to close these questions. I realize that reformulating vague questions to make some sense requires time out of the moderators, but I think/hope as the number of moderators grows, this will become less of a problem.

Yes, the last point is a great one!

I agree with Moritz. I think the goal should be to talk about the science, not sociology. My fear is that if many non-technical questions are allowed, the site might go the same way as some of the TCS blogs seem to have been going recently: filled with nasty, personal, uninteresting comments by anonymouses.