Unfortunately I’ve come to the conclusion that upvotes on Stackoverflow aren’t correlated with question content (or I’m not skilled enough to be able to differentiate between “good” and “bad” questions). Check out the linked write up for more detailed info.
I think the original comment is being sarcastic and suggesting that the actual humans that close discussions and mark them as "off topic" don't understand the question and perform these actions at random. This is a sentiment shared by many who don't "live" in those types of forums.
Could you not also train a classifier that correlates question content with mod decision? Questions like "what is the best X? " that are obviously subjective
, for example.
Maybe even some kind of crazy generative model that learns to post questions that aren't closed by the AI moderator!