While reviewing the Reopen Votes queue, I encountered a duplicate question. Something about it seemed off - the revision was quite extensive, and from looking at the duplicate and the revised question I saw no similarities.
I went over to the question itself to investigate. I saw that the question was closed as a duplicate, and after closure it was edited into a completely different question. When I realized that, I rolled-back the question to its last revision of the original and left a comment to the OP along the lines of:
The edit button is for clarifications and improvements, not to changethe question completely. If you have a new question, please ask a newone.
Which in reply I got something along the lines of:
I can't ask new questions and I will have to wait a long time.
My guess is that the user is probably banned. Now my question is:
Should I've been more "gentle" on the user and vote to reopen the question to disassociate it from the (now irrelevant) duplicate? I feel like that is wrong because while there were still no answers, the history of the post would look quite odd.
This is a bit different than How to deal with the OP editing their question after a duplicate closure to ask a new one? as the question there was already opened and answered.