Referring to: [Debian Stable vs Ubuntu LTS for Server?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/15314/debian-stable-vs-ubuntu-lts-for-server)

This seems to be considered a valid question by the diamond mods (at least I conclude that from looking at the highest rated answer), but I'd like to know why?

My first reaction would be to consider this not a `practical, answerable question[]`: it's asking for an opinion.

The "mod" answer starts with

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> Well I don't see why people are making a fuss about the quality of the question. It's clearly a decision that lots of developers will want to weigh up before deploying.
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(*shouldn't that be somewhere else by the way? that's a bit meta, not really part of the answer is it?*).

While I agree that having a question/answer pair to help us with this problem would be great, but wouldn't you want to have something more real? I could imagine a question like 

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> I need to make this decision: what are the differences concerning Foo and Bar between Ubuntu and Debian, and how will they affect me?"
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would have serious use, but the question as it stands reads "what is better", and together with

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> I keep switching back and forth, and I need to decide so I can recommend one or the other to a client. Right now, I think I am going to choose Debian Stable.
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(no support for decision, no reasonings, arguments one way or the other etc) it seems like a weak question to me. Why the need for specifically defending this question in an answer? What did I miss?