Questions tagged [protected-questions]
Questions may be protected by users with 15,000 reputation or by diamond moderators. Protected questions can only be answered by users with at least 10 reputation (110 if they have the association bonus).
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What is a “protected” or "highly active" question?
Questions can be protected (i.e. marked "highly active").
What does it mean for a question to be protected?
Why are some questions protected?
Who can protect and unprotect questions?
Who can answer a ...
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Improve "Protected Question" message with regard to rep gained through Association Bonus
I recently started an account on Android Enthusiasts, and went to add an answer to a question which was protected. I have enough rep on other sites that I have the "Association Bonus", so I was ...
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Protecting a question shows mistaken authorship in Google search results
Today, I was searching on Google for a resource on viewing the JavaScript console in various browsers. As it turns out, there was a good overview on Webmasters.SE:
"Thanks, John Conde!" I thought to ...
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For protected questions, require local reputation to comment
Questions are occasionally protected when they start attracting unwanted input -- because the question was on the Hot Network Questions list, because it hit Reddit, because it's about a hot-button ...
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Can we have a "isprotected" search operator?
Please add a search operator that selects for (or against) the protected status flag.
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Automatically protect questions with three or more low-rep-user deleted answers
There are a few "automatically protect questions" requests out there, but I'd like to add another twist.
I'd like to request that questions that have three or more deleted answers by users with <...
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Stack Exchange doesn't allow me to answer protected questions because I gave away earned rep in bounties
I noticed that I can't answer protected questions. I don't want to actually, but it says:
It was FAQ for Stack Exchange sites, but I also didn't have an ability to answer other protected ...
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Prevent suggested edits under 10 reputation on protected questions
Recently, we've had some suggested edit spam from anonymous users. The specific question being targeted is protected:
protected by studiohack ♦ Apr 27 '11 at 1:10
This question is protected to ...
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Is there a way to see the history of questions protected by me or another user?
Having a record of all actions taken on a site, as is provided by the "activity" and "votes" tabs of our profile, comes in handy very often. Perhaps the most common case is being ...
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Auto-protect questions that get more than N answers from new users in a 24-hour period
Expanding the criteria for auto-protection has been discussed in the past: Should we automatically protect all questions with more than N answers?
But I think that discussion addresses the wrong ...
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Why is the Association Bonus ignored when trying to answer a protected question?
I registered on math.se only to post an answer to this question.
However, since it's a protected question, I am not allowed to answer it. (I found this info from here).
Worth to mention, I can ...
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Show 10kers a larger list of recently protected questions
I recently reached 15k on Stack Overflow, and promptly went to check out my new privileges. Results:
Questions protected: 0
Questions unprotected: >10
Turns out, people protect things for weird ...
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Prevent protecting questions under certain circumstances
I've found a trend that I'd like to discuss. There are users that have reached 15K+ reputation that are participating in a question and then protecting it so that low reputation users can't answer. ...
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For 15k+ users: Guidelines on Protecting Questions? [duplicate]
Just got a notice on StackOverflow that I can now "protect questions" .... I've seen diamond moderators do this a few times before, but for the most part I haven't seen it used too often. Therefore I ...
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Deleted user's posts do not seem to count towards auto protection
I expected this post to be automatically protected by Community after three answers were deleted:
However, that was not the case. Upon further investigation and some help from other mods , it ...
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Should trending questions be auto-protected? [duplicate]
I noticed today that a request for protection came up due to the the large number of me-too answers on a trending question I answered recently. This got me thinking, since trending questions get far ...
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Allow authors to self-answer their own protected questions even if they don't have enough reputation
I'm asking this question because of Can't answer protected question despite meeting reputation requirement:
For the purposes of your reputation "on this site", Stack Exchange has ...
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Protected question notice is confusing and incorrect, especially to users with the association bonus
The new notice for protected questions looks like this:
Earn 10 reputation in order to answer this question. The reputation requirement helps protect this question from spam and non-answer activity.
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Protecting a question does not work with exactly 15000 reputation
Today I got to 15000 reputation on Super User. I received the notification that I could now protect questions (eligible for protection as per the FAQ).
Interestingly enough, it didn't work. I just ...
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Should we automatically protect all questions with more than N answers?
I was thinking, if a question has more than say 40 answers there is very little value in getting answer number 41. The chances of it floating to the top are slim.
Does it make sense to automatically ...
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Make unprotection disqualify questions from further auto-protection
When Community Wiki status is removed from a question, it makes that question ineligible to be automatically converted back to wiki status again. (Ignore the fact that auto-CW doesn't exist any more ...
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Why wasn't this question automatically protected after 7 deleted spam answers?
I just destroyed a spam user, and noticed that one of their posts, which is to this question:
Require anonymous user to register to add content-type
Is the seventh spam answer to be deleted. I ...
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Please add the list of questions (un-)protected to the profile page [duplicate]
Currently, the profile page does not show which questions one (un-)protected.
One can get a list from SEDE (at most one week old, not containing deleted questions), but that's somewhat cumbersome.
I ...
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Can we do something more useful when new users land on a protected question?
If you land on a protected question and are not able to answer (because you don't have 10 reputation earned on the site) you find this notice where the answer box normally lives:
That's weird and a ...
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What causes a question to be protected by the Community ♦ user [duplicate]
I noticed this question in particular, which has 5 deleted answers on it. The most recently deleted answer was deleted by a diamond mod 3 minutes prior to the time it was protected by Community ♦
Is ...
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Protected questions and editing [duplicate]
I have an answer on Ask Different that gets 2-3 spam edits a day. The other two answers also receive near daily spam edits when the posts are not locked.
The question has been protected however this ...
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Can we get a better wording for protected questions?
For context, see https://security.meta.stackexchange.com/a/1208/836.
In essence:
"This question is protected to prevent "thanks!", "me too!", or spam answers by new users. To answer it, you must ...
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Let moderators mark a question as a honeypot, autoflag all subsequent answers
tl;dr: Auto-protection doesn't always work to keep spammers away. Give me a way to have new answers to a question flagged automatically.
There is a question or two on my site that gets a decent ...
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Make having a Student or Teacher badge the requirement for commenting on or answering protected questions instead of site reputation
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Require users to have Student (First question with score of 1 or more) or Teacher (Answer with score of 1 or more) on the site to be able to answer or comment on protected questions instead ...
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Make reputation message when answering protected questions less ambiguous [duplicate]
A lot of users find the 'reputation required' message on protected questions hard to understand, specifically when they've gained the network association bonus and they think they have earned enough ...
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Why is the sandbox protected?
I noticed that Undo was playing around with the formatting sandbox last night and protected it.
Why? Isn't the sandbox supposed to be where any user (new or old) can play around with Stack Exchange'...
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Undocumented change to reputation threshold for answering protected questions?
The banner displayed on protected questions still states that the reputation threshold for answering is 10, but the real threshold appears to be greater than 75. I have 75 reputation on Stack Overflow,...
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"Protect Questions" privilege page doesn't mention the new answer requirement
A new feature was implemented a few weeks ago from Prevent protecting questions under certain circumstances -
We recently implemented a change to protected questions based on the
suggestion by ...
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Allow people to answer protected questions if they have earned at least some amount of combined SE rep
The purpose of protected questions is, according to the message presented on such a question, "to prevent 'thanks!', 'me too!', or spam answers by new users." The more verbose "Protected questions" ...
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Eeeek! Something stole the protection! (Why is this protected question unprotected?)
Jon Ericson asked me to report this (apparent) bug.
When he tried to protect this question someone (or something) stole the question's protection, which has since been missing:
The question ...
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Allow 15k rep to protect highly viewed young questions
As described in the protected-questions privileges:
Questions should be protected when they are garnering lots of views and newbies are adding "me too!", "thanks!" and possibly even spam non-...
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Move the "highly active question" banner down below the question
Maybe it's just me, but the new "highly-active" banner seems kind of jarring:
It feels to me like the most eye-catching thing on the page, positioned as it is above the question text, and yet it's ...
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Protect a question from being spaminated, but allow legitimate users to carry on
Let moderators offer a protection status visa to certain questions under constant non-answer fire.
Much like Wikipedia, this would allow users above a certain level of reputation (but at what level?)...
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Protection banner missing when I don't have enough rep to answer; closed and locked banners appear in wrong spot
For some reasons (HNQ) I stumbled upon this question. I scrolled down, read through the answers and then I saw that there was no answer field:
This was strange, because the question seemed not to be ...
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Protected notice appears at the bottom of the page for guest users and is poorly formatted [duplicate]
Guests see the Protected notice at the bottom of the page, somewhat displaced:
Logged in, all is fine:
It actually belongs there, at the bottom, but then it has some design glitches, or it needs to ...
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Not possible for 15k+ users to protect or unprotect questions on which a moderator has disabled commenting
Ordinarily, users with 15k+ reputation can protect questions that are at least 24 hours old, and have at least one answer from a user with less than 10 reputation.
However, I'm unable to protect this ...
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Can we have a better way to look at protected questions in the 10K tools?
Back in 2010, a request was made for a search operator for protected questions. This hasn't been implemented, so I thought I'd look at it from a different angle.
In November of 2016, we added the ...
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Remove UI restriction against unprotecting questions less than 24 hours old
It's that time of the year again; no, I don't mean April Fools, I mean a question with a lot of posts by users who are new to Meta. These posts are explicitly open to new users. Like the contests last ...
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On Meta Stack Overflow, the association bonus should count towards the rep requirement for protected questions
The association bonus is ignored by design for the 10 reputation requirement to answer a protected question.
Since Meta Stack Overflow is the only meta with separate reputation (correct me if I'm ...
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"Protect Questions" privilege page has confusing wording
The wording on the Protect Questions privilege page is confusing and would benefit from being clarified. See these questions on meta.SE and meta.SO.
Suggested wording from this answer is to replace ...
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Should not questions be automatically protected, when the number of deleted answers from deleted accounts is higher than X?
What is causing formatting to break? has 6 spam answers which have been deleted from our friend the Community user when the spammer account was destroyed.
Should not the question be automatically ...
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No diamond icon for moderators in protected question moderator tool
There is no diamond icon displayed for the moderator accounts in the protected question 10k tools page.
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Why can't I answer any protected questions on Stack Overflow even though I have 533 reputation?
You need 10 reputation to answer protected questions. I know that they ignore the Association Bonus, but I'm still 433 reputation over the requirement.
I don't see an answer box on any protected ...
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10k tools enhancement request: Questions with many deleted answers
I have passed 3500 reputation on a beta site, so I have both access to the 10K tools and the ability to protect things.
However, the protection ability is somewhat tough to use, because there isn't ...
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Protection prevention ignores deleted answers from new users
Related: Prevent protecting questions under certain circumstances
...we're considering removing the option to protect from questions that haven't received at least one answer from a new user. That'...
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