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Questions tagged [protected-questions]

Questions may be protected by users with 15,000 reputation or by diamond moderators. Protected questions can only be answered by users with at least 10 reputation (110 if they have the association bonus).

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1 answer
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Protected questions should have a higher reputation requirement for editing and approving edits

When a question is protected it requires a certain minimum reputation to answer it. At least on politics SE this is mostly used for questions that are highly politized or opioniated. And it works in ...
quarague's user avatar
4 votes
1 answer
104 views

Why is the "Highly active" label still present even after all activity has ceased? [duplicate]

I was browsing Aviation by top voted, and came across Why does Chicago O'Hare have a penalty box? Asked and answered in 2014, the most recent activity on this question includes: 3 years ago: an ...
Cory Klein's user avatar
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2 votes
2 answers
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How can I answer a highly active question without enough reputation? [duplicate]

I have a great answer to an important question on the Arduino Stack Exchange site, but I cannot post my findings there without a higher rep. How can I share what I know with the other folks on that ...
Jon Dresser's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
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Users with 10 reputation points hop the fence of protected questions while one with less than 15 can't even upvote an answer

Users with 10 reputation points hop the fence of protected questions while one with less than 15 can't even upvote an answer "Questions should be protected when they are attracting poor answers ...
Cheresneysh's user avatar
12 votes
0 answers
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Attempting to protect a question that is no longer eligible for protection silently fails

I opened a question that had just gotten a new answer. The answer scores were as follows: 65 10 7 4 -1 (new answer) 0 (deleted) 0 (deleted) -2 (deleted) The protect link was present on the question. ...
miken32's user avatar
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9 votes
0 answers
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Can we raise the threshold for protected questions?

The question "Why is processing a sorted array faster than processing an unsorted array?" is fairly old at this point and doesn't really need additional contributions. For whatever reason, ...
GManNickG's user avatar
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5 votes
1 answer
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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 ...
Cjxcz Odjcayrwl's user avatar
6 votes
0 answers
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Missing spacing between the bottom "Highly active question" banner and the page buttons

If a question has a "Highly active question" banner and >1 page of answers, the page-switching buttons touch the banner. Looks like some spacing is missing here. See this question for an ...
HolyBlackCat's user avatar
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2 votes
0 answers
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Include "the association bonus doesn't count" message in a protected question label [duplicate]

While reading a deleted post from Meta Stack Exchange at https://web.archive.org, I saw one of the older "protected question" labels: And then I saw one of the newer protected labels (this ...
Ollie's user avatar
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4 votes
1 answer
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99 reputation yet getting "Earn 10 reputation in order to answer this question" [duplicate]

Asking this here because I think this is very likely to be a general behaviour. Some months ago I wrote an answer to a question in Software Engineering that got very bad feedback (two negative votes ...
Tiago Peres's user avatar
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12 votes
0 answers
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How can I avoid a question getting protected in middle of writing an answer?

I was in the middle of writing a (in my opinion good and detailed) answer to a question on a Stack Exchange site I hadn't used before. But when I tried to save the answer, it turns out the question ...
jpa's user avatar
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4 votes
0 answers
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Can't answer my own (old, protected) question [duplicate]

I'm logged in to Physics.SE, I have 73 rep, and yet I noticed I can't answer my own question: Supposedly the reputation requirement is only 10, yet I'm prevented from posting: Since I hardly use ...
jtbandes's user avatar
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-14 votes
1 answer
181 views

What can I do if I want to answer a protected question without having the required reputation to do so? [duplicate]

… although I have more than enough on Stack Overflow. The question I'm trying to answer is: Rails - Does using partials slow views rendering? This problem has annoyed me for awhile. I found the ...
halfbit's user avatar
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3 votes
1 answer
97 views

Dialog/tooltip for 'protect' button misaligned on narrow screens

On a narrow screen, the 'protect' button sometimes wraps to the next line of the so-called 'post menu'; if you click it, the resulting dialog/tooltip can become misaligned. On Safari, this happens on ...
Glorfindel's user avatar
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5 votes
0 answers
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Make the "Highly active question" banner link to the "remove new user restrictions" privilege, not the "protect questions" privilege

Currently, the "Highly active question" banner links to the "protect questions" privilege when clicking on the linked text. Example here: Boundary of Siegel modular variety But ...
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