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It's obvious that the deletions are getting out-of-hand, and we're losing good answers at a fast rate. How about making a new button lock after a post has been closed, and three or five votes can lock it, thereby protecting it from deletion?
I'd think 3k should be enough to do this, but I'm flexible on the parameters.
EDIT: With this solution now implemented, there probably isn't a huge need for this. I'll leave it up for those who think there is that need.
Since the # of delete votes required to delete something is now
3 + ((sum of all votes) / 10)
I'd say posts with a large number of votes (say, 100) are effectively locked because they require 13 deletion votes in a 2 day period to achieve actual deletion.
Since this is currently an admin-only tool, I'd say 5 votes from 10K users would be more appropriate than 3K, but otherwise I'd be totally in favor of this.
I'm fine with this, provided only moderators can unlock a post - otherwise, we'd just end up with lock-wars to compliment the existing close- and delete-wars.
But keep in mind, locking now implicitly closes questions, preventing new answers in addition to edits, votes, etc. This may not be an option many users are comfortable exercising... in which case it would be left to the moderators, just like today.
Clearly I'm biased, but I thought this incident ended well.
I'm inclined to leave it to the ♦ Moderators to fix. These kinds of incidents don't happen that often, surely not often enough to warrant a system fix.
Part of the problem is that high-rep users can recast their delete vote on the same question. It should be a one-shot.
+1, but I think this should require more than 3K. I would suggest this as a 20K feature.
