Questions tagged [locked-questions]
Locking a question typically prevents regular users from answering, editing, commenting on, or voting on it. Only site moderators may lock or unlock posts, or perform restricted actions on locked posts. If a question is locked, any existing answers on it are not automatically locked/affected by these restrictions. (For issues related to locked answers, use the [locked-answers] tag instead.)
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How can I find out if I voted on a post with historical lock?
Other than laboriously going through my votes in my profile, is there any way to know if I voted on a post where the vote arrows are missing due to a lock?
In this case it's a content dispute (...
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How can one see the number of reopen votes that were cast and that haven't expired yet on a question that is now locked?
Example of a locked question: What do the red dashed lines mean in Google Maps?
How can one see the number of reopen votes that were cast and that haven't expired yet on a question that is now locked?
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Locking a question as a "content dispute" is incorrectly locking the answers and hiding the vote buttons, like "historical" and "obsolete" locks
In other words, "content dispute" locks are now freezing questions instead of locking them.
Per the second link above, locks on questions for reasons other than "historical significance&...
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When and how can a merged question be deleted?
From What is a "merged" question?:
If the merge stub is later deleted, the asker will lose the reputation they earned from it unless it had a score of at least 3 and was visible for at ...
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Should I refrain from commenting on an answer to a locked question?
If I see a question is comment-locked, should I refrain from commenting on an answer? Should I assume that if the moderator wanted to stop all comments on the page, he would have locked all the ...
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Highly active inactive question?
I've just stumbled upon a highly active question:
Well, 2 years and 3 months ago is almost yesterday?
I suppose it's the lock manually applied to the controversial questions, but aren't they expect ...
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Shouldn't comment upvote buttons on locked questions be visibly disabled? [duplicate]
On locked questions, the upvote / downvote buttons (for the question and for the answers) are disabled, as in this screenshot:
However, upvote buttons on comments appear as if you could upvote ...
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Should Jeff Atwood's question about downvote weight be unlocked?
The question in question: Should the weight of downvotes be increased?
I have read Why was this question about increasing downvote weight locked? which says it was probably locked due to an abusive ...
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Locked posts not showing up in search - is this intentional? [duplicate]
Forwarding this bug report from CGCC meta:
We have a meta tag best-of, which is an annual category for our site. It's basically a competition, and so we have a meta post to vote for nominations. The ...
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Why does this question show up in the [developers] search results?
UPDATE
The tag has been burned; the locked question is no longer on the list.
Or maybe that should be, "Questions with mod-removed tags show up on that tag's search results"...
I went and ...
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"Votes" label isn't centered on locked posts with an extreme score
The "votes" label underneath a locked post with an extreme score is not centered:
It's set to text-align: left; it needs to be set to center.
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What determines that which function should be disabled in a locked post? [duplicate]
In this locked post, it's only comments that have been disabled and other functions are still being accepted there (e.g. voting, answering, etc.)
Which concrete factor is the reason for disability of ...
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Edit wars with new users
Note: I am not trying to Kumbaya a new user's way in; I want to see any suggestions as to how edits might end the edit war on the post, instead of a simple lock. Besides, my first question is about ...
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Can policy-locked posts be locked for comments? What happens if the comments end up going out of hand on a policy-locked post?
Recently, the new Policy Lock feature was introduced, to allow staff members to lock posts for editing by non-staff while still permitting votes and comments.
However, I'm wondering what will happen ...
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"Comments only" lock notice on closed questions mistakenly says that question is still accepting answers
When a question has a "comments-only" lock, the following notice is displayed on top of the question:
Locked for X days. Comments on this question have been disabled, but it is still ...
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