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It should be “large number” of off-topic comments, not “high amount”

See this, one of the notices for why a post is locked (emphasis mine): This post has been locked due to the high amount of off-topic comments generated. A link to a chat room will be posted in the ...
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Can the OP of a locked answer still edit it?

There was this edit war and then a diamond moderator locked the answer to stop the edit war. Can the OP still edit the answer? Or is everyone, (including OP) except for diamond moderators prevented ...
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Upvoting comments in locked posts

When a post is locked, you should not be able to vote on it, including comments. But you can vote on comments, until you get stopped by an error. (Found in Jon Skeet Facts). This should be fixed....
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How to get a support request fulfilled on Meta Stack Overflow? [closed]

Well, the folks on Meta.SO managed to close a support request as off-topic: Please delete an answer that is locked. In fact, the folks on Meta.SE told me to go there and make the request: How do I ...
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This post has been locked while disputes about its content are being resolved. For more info visit meta… On Meta.SE

This post was locked (reasons are not needed for this post): My comment is about the link "visit meta". That isn't especially helpful as we are on Meta.SE, the site it redirects us to. Should this ...
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Bounty cannot be awarded on a locked answer

I wanted to award a bounty of 50 rep to this answer because it's great. However, while I could start the bounty I was not able to award it since that answer is locked. It would be great if a ...
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Remove links when a post is deleted by Community from spam/offensive flags

Recently a user had completely lost it after getting question banned and he posted 3 spam answers: 10k only - No mods were on at the time to process our flags, but we mob-deleted them from the Lounge&...
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Why aren't the voting buttons disabled on this locked answer?

So I recently noticed that locked questions lose all the voting buttons on the question and its answers (which definitely makes sense, condidering you can't vote on locked posts). Example: http://...
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Locked answer has the wrong text [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: The historical significance lock reason on answers still references “this question” A locked answer has the following text: This question exists because it has ...