I was looking at some old questions on Stack Overflow, and I found a question looking for "the best way to do something" that wasn't closed or locked. Here's the question. However, there are some highly upvoted questions closed for the reason Not Constructive:
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Why are some old questions left open (and not locked with the historical message) that should be closed for this reason?
If you need more proof of this problem, just search for best closed:no locked:no
on one of the Stack Exchange sites.