Don't you just fucking love it when you ask a question or report an issue on gitHub, and they back-handedly slap you with a "that's a coding question, do it on SO", and wham they close the issue.
how fucking anal and lazy would you have to be?

Well d'oh, GitHub issues (or any other similar thing, like Jira tickets) are things that are meant to be opened, worked on, closed, and forgotten (in that order). They are part of development process, and unless your question is directly related to that process (e.g. "will there be support for X", or "I am considering implementing Y, which would be a better way of doing it to have it merged"), then it doesn't belong there.