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Since I've a database systems examination in less than 3 hours (from now), I have been browsing Stack Exchange network for questions with normalisation and related tags. Most of the questions are now closed as not constructive or others from the list.
Since, these questions are closed, no users are allowed to post answers to them (unless they are reopened). Why am I, then, allowed the option to protect such questions? Doesn't that beat the entire purpose behind "protecting" a question?
It is a bit of a quirk, but while the action is available to you, we don't expect that you'd use it unless you were doing so for a very specific purpose (such as noted in comments, a case where a spam magnet might be headed to reopening).
Some cars still come with the built-in cigarette lighter, and I believe they all have steering wheels. The manufacturer doesn't expect you to interact with the steering wheel using the cigarette lighter unless you have a very task-specific reason for doing so, such as setting the wheel on fire for dramatic effect.
While we should work out (again, noted in comments) the precedence of messages displayed, a matter of consensus, I don't see a reason to change this part of the behavior.
