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Reviewing first posts I often find ones not fitting to the site's rules.

I generally comment on them and ask for improvement, but I fear closing them as that could be considered as rude by the new users and could repel them from here.
What should be the best practice?

Just an example is here: Excel - IF statement to find out if two cells contain same keywordExcel - IF statement to find out if two cells contain same keyword, it already has a comment asking for clarification, and in current state it should be closed as unclear.

Reviewing first posts I often find ones not fitting to the site's rules.

I generally comment on them and ask for improvement, but I fear closing them as that could be considered as rude by the new users and could repel them from here.
What should be the best practice?

Just an example is here: Excel - IF statement to find out if two cells contain same keyword, it already has a comment asking for clarification, and in current state it should be closed as unclear.

Reviewing first posts I often find ones not fitting to the site's rules.

I generally comment on them and ask for improvement, but I fear closing them as that could be considered as rude by the new users and could repel them from here.
What should be the best practice?

Just an example is here: Excel - IF statement to find out if two cells contain same keyword, it already has a comment asking for clarification, and in current state it should be closed as unclear.

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Máté Juhász
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Best practice on first post review - should close immediately?

Reviewing first posts I often find ones not fitting to the site's rules.

I generally comment on them and ask for improvement, but I fear closing them as that could be considered as rude by the new users and could repel them from here.
What should be the best practice?

Just an example is here: Excel - IF statement to find out if two cells contain same keyword, it already has a comment asking for clarification, and in current state it should be closed as unclear.