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2:00 PM

@InvaderSkoodge Aww Lilian is a pretty name. Congratualtions.

@InvaderSkoodge What's the point of these mails, anyway? Trying to scam you out of your money by pretending to need help in some way? And ... why does it even work if so?

Invader Skoodge

@MartinSojka I have no clue.

FAE

While I'm not the biggest fan of these, aren't Identify this thing with a concrete evidence of its existence allowed here?

Invader Skoodge

@FAE Voted...

But not to reopen.

Martin Sojka

@FAE I think this one was mostly not constructive and too localised. I mean, it sure was worth answering (which is why I did so), but it was both trivial (FFS, Google for the name) and not helping anyone but the asker.

FAE

2:11 PM

@MartinSojka How was it non-constructive? If there's no research effort, we should downvote instead of close.

Martin Sojka

@FAE How often do you think anyone else would have the same question, and if they did, how the hell would they be able to find the answer here?

FAE

It was closed as off-topic, but as per Mark Trapp's answer here, it's still asking for something within our purview.

Invader Skoodge

@MartinSojka I actually agree. This is a good example of too localized (finally).

Martin Sojka

I can't cast close votes, so I have little influence about the close reason here. For me, this question is simply so badly written that the only search term which consistently can lead to it ("プリルラ") also leads straight to the Wikipedia article about the game. As the first search result.

FAE

@MartinSojka If details of the gameplay are added to the question body, it'd make it more googleable.

Invader Skoodge

2:16 PM

@FAE In GW2, your first 5 skills are dictated by your primary/off handed weapon. If you use a two-handed weapon, does that dictate all 5 skills then?

FAE

@InvaderSkoodge Yes.

Martin Sojka

@FAE If. Until then, closing a question so it can be improved upon is a valid way to deal with it.

Invader Skoodge

I read about the classes and decided to try Guardian this weekend.

FAE

@MartinSojka This goes back to the discussion we had a few weeks ago about closing for the right reasons though. No one's going to try to improve a post that's been closed as Off-Topic.

Martin Sojka

@FAE I did for some of mine. :)

If the asker can't be bothered ... why should we?

FAE

2:18 PM

NC, NARQ, Localized, even some dupes can be improved upon to make them re-openworthy.

@MartinSojka Because we want to make the site and the internet a better place. By that same logic, why should we care about closing or cleaning up spam?

OrigamiRobot

@FAE The problem is closure is viewed as a slap on the wrist.

FAE

Because we want to maintain our standards of quality. And we're allowed and encouraged to edit other people's stuff, and if people aren't comfortable with that, they should GTFO, says so right in the FAQ. Yes, we often encourage the poster themselves to improve their stuff first, but sometimes people just go ahead and do so, and there's nothing wrong with that, as long as it's maintaining original intent.

OrigamiRobot

We should add "Nothing personal. We love you." to the end of every close reason.

Martin Sojka

@FAE So go ahead and edit it?

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