Belated answer here... but since I've been tidying up forum related section then thought I'd answer for clarity.
Unfortunately the forum related board got a bit messy, no harm done but I've been cleaning it up moving topics to correct sections, namely basic questions and suggestion box.
As a summary, basic questions with basic answers goes to "Basic questions about this forum" section. Whether from a higher-ranking user of not is less relevant than whether it would be beneficial for beginners (consider the idea of newbies actually using the search function for that section). If in doubt, basic questions about the forum are beneficial for beginners. And by beginners, this means newer members, so naturally this includes any teleported members asking the usual questions such as "how to delete post", "what does this rank mean", "why did i get negative karma", etc, etc, that in fairness have been asked over a hundred time before, with threads that already exist in the basic questions section.
Hence your question has since been moved to basic questions, because there was a basic enough answer, as opposed to some broader discussion.