Self-Vandalism, what is correct action

Question

Reviewing low quality posts, I was sent to review this Question

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Where the user had vandalized their own post by replacing it with

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I rolled back and flagged.

This leaves me wondering:

• Is there a more official action to take?

• Are there ways or reasons to lock a post in a way that OP cannot change it?

• Should there be?

• or is rolling back and flagging the correct route?

Answer 1

Is there a more official action to take?

Rolling it back, like you did. Usually an OP will do that because they've either found their answer or think their question is "stupid" for lack of a better term, and are unable to delete it because of other answers on the question. There's not really any reason to flag a one-time occurrence, though. Vandalism of multiple posts, or continued rollbacks on the same post, will be automatically flagged for moderator attention by the Community user and action will be taken.

Are there ways or reasons to lock a post in a way that OP cannot change it?

Moderators can lock a question to prevent inappropriate editing, but that also has its own side effects, like preventing additional answers from being posted, as well as preventing further voting. We reserve that action for only more extreme cases.