I just leapt in to edit this question before it got closed under the

Questions asking us to recommend or find a tool, library or favorite off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what has been done so far to solve it.

close reason. It had already attracted 4 close votes.

This is madness. I can understand that when the problem is poorly specified, there may be nothing to be done about a library recommendation question besides closing it. In this case, though, the problem the question asker was trying to solve was very well-specified. Closing a question with a well-specified problem because it happens to suggest that a library might exist that solves the problem makes no sense.

Please can people not close such questions and instead just edit them questions so that they directly ask how to solve the problem, instead of asking for a library that solves it?

I just leapt in to edit this question before it got closed under the

Questions asking us to recommend or find a tool, library or favorite off-site resource are off-topic for Stack Overflow as they tend to attract opinionated answers and spam. Instead, describe the problem and what has been done so far to solve it.

close reason. It had already attracted 4 close votes.

This is madness. I can understand that when the problem is poorly specified, there may be nothing to be done about a library recommendation question besides closing it. In this case, though, the problem the question asker was trying to solve was very well-specified. Closing a question with a well-specified problem because it happens to suggest that a library might exist that solves the problem makes no sense.

Please can people not close such questions and instead just edit them questions so that they directly ask how to solve the problem, instead of asking for a library that solves it?