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I didn't find any help related to this topic. How does the community protect a question? What is the logic behind that? Here is an example question:
protected by Community♦ 58 mins ago
This question is protected to prevent "thanks!", "me too!", or spam answers by new users. To answer it, you must have earned at least 10 reputation on this site.
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If a question attracts a lot of spam answers then when they're deleted the question automatically gets protected, as it's clearly been identified as a target for spammers for whatever reason.
Moderators and users with the Protect Questions privilege can also protect questions, but that's a manual process. Community does it as a result of posts getting flagged and deleted.
