On a given question a comment is posted:
please refrain from voting to close/reopen this question until a consensus has been reached on Meta.
And the question is locked to enforce this opinion - that the question remain open until a subjective question on Meta is answered.
Why are moderators disabling the community consensus on Stack Overflow with the built-in voting mechanism and forcing the community to go here?
Isn't that the purpose of the voting mechanism? Why not allow both communities to deal with it, and once Meta reached a decision a moderator can enforce it?
Preventing normal Stack Overflow participants from voting via the normal mechanisms and favoring one side over the other seems to be an exceptionally poor choice, and I'd like to understand the reasoning behind it.