A big pet peeve of mine about Stack Exchange's Science Fiction and Fantasy website is that's filled with questions that I describe as "why didn't character x act rationally" questions. Recently, someone asked the question [Why didn't Hermione or Dumbledore use the Time-Turner to defeat Voldemort?](https://literature.stackexchange.com/questions/128/why-did-hermione-not-kill-voldemort-in-the-prisoner-of-azkaban), which is essentially a "why didn't character x act rationally" question. I wrote a comment complaining about these types of questions, the question was downvoted and closed, and several people upvoted my comment. DForck42 (who voted to close the question) wrote a comment saying that:

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> @Hamlet I prefer "why did they do this" rather than "why didn't they do this", the former tends to have better character analysis and adds more appreciation to the character's choices
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I'm just curious to get other people's thoughts on this. **Personally, I *don't* think these questions should be closed**, and I'm not actually sure why this question was closed in the first place. However, I also think these questions tend to be low quality (for the reasons DForck42 gives in their comment), and I think it's correct that the question was downvoted.

What are people's thoughts?