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An old question on Super User with lots of views was just bumped by a spam user. The post was spam-flagged and removed, and the question was simultaneously protected.

Does this mean this related question is ? Is there any other criteria for auto-protecting or does this happen when an answer on an old, popular (metrics?) question gets spam-flag-removed?

For what it's worth, I thought I saw a similar behaviour yesterday, but I was not sure.

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    I'm pretty sure that this question is the one that triggered that behavior. It's marked status-complete.
    – Cody Gray
    Commented May 18, 2011 at 4:53
  • thanks @CodyGray I seem to have missed that question.
    – Sathyajith Bhat
    Commented May 18, 2011 at 7:05
  • YEAH! THAT'S ME, BABY!
    – user1228
    Commented May 18, 2011 at 14:12

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As Cody said, this is completed here

This will be in the next build. When the third answer on a question from a new (<10 rep) user is deleted, protection will be triggered automatically from Community. There is one tweak though: each user only counts once when we're checking deleted (to eliminate the self-answers that should be comments on their own question case).

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