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locked? or closed?
– nhahtdh
Commented Nov 5, 2014 at 9:42
@nhahtdh lock and unlock.
– Dom
Commented Nov 6, 2014 at 8:52
There is generally no harm in locking post. It only prevents users with less than 10 rep to answer, and it is quite easy to ask a mod to unlock a post once the crowd has died down. What you are talking about sounds like closing, which will prevent new answer from being added at all.
– nhahtdh
Commented Nov 6, 2014 at 9:03
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@nhahtdh: You're thinking of protecting, not locking. 15k+ users can already protect questions. Locking prevents all voting, commenting, and answering, and therefore is extremely rare to use.
– mmyers
Commented Nov 6, 2014 at 16:39
@mmyers: Ah, I forgot about the locking feature. Didn't come across much recently since most locked posts are old post and most old off-topic questions are usually deleted instead of locked.
– nhahtdh
Commented Nov 6, 2014 at 16:48
Tbh fellas, it's just an idea for providing some responsibility to silver badge holders. It's not a huge proposal with lots to think about. The locking power is currently reserved for very few, this would just give it to a few more people for very specific purposes. Essentially, "you know enough about this tag to gain a silver badge - you probably know enough to decide a question is getting too much poor traffic" and needs to be locked, or unlocked, when it's been locked too early/unnecessarily. Moderators don't need final say when they have a team of people helping to make decisions.
– Dom
Commented Nov 6, 2014 at 22:22
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I think this is an interesting idea, but I think silver is a little too low for a privilege like locking. IMO, locking questions is a major event -- no voting, commenting, or editing. If this was implemented, I see a whole lot of mods running around unlocking questions that have been locked by recent silver badge receivers.
– MTL
Commented Nov 12, 2014 at 6:20
Do you mean locking, totally preventing any change, or protecting, which only stops newbies from posting?
– Scimonster
Commented Nov 13, 2014 at 19:45
I meant protecting, thanks for clarifying everybody.
– Dom
Commented Jan 2, 2015 at 0:29

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