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Can we get a comments only lock?
As a moderator, I deleted thousands of comments and left many links to chat for people to follow. I've had to apply off-topic comments locks to many posts to get comments to stop. Unfortunately, as ...
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Please unlock “Fram's ban on Wikipedia…What can Stack Exchange learn from it?”
Discussions about ways to constructively resolve some of the issues SE has experienced should be on topic here. While there are many things that make SE unique, we are not so different from other ...
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Please unlock “Fram's ban on Wikipedia…What can Stack Exchange learn from it?”
Oh my! I'm really not the controversy type.
Given that Stack Exchange has basically stopped communicating (and I don't blame them), it seems reasonable to find precedent elsewhere. Wikipedia is ...
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Can we show post lock timers to all users?
I'd rather not give this information to people who are eagerly awaiting the lock's expiration so they can get right back to their comment argument or edit war or whatever. The goal of the lock is to ...
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Are rejected migrations ever automatically deleted from the destination site? Should they be?
Starting this coming weekend, these should be deleted automatically 30 days after being rejected.
Note that this logic will only delete a rejected, migrated question if it meets the following ...
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Why was this question about increasing downvote weight locked?
We didn't always have lock reasons. That lock is simply too old.
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Can someone fix the broken links in this historically-locked question?
You cannot fix it yourself, however, a moderator can. Flag the post for moderator attention and explain the situation ("link in text xxx is broken, could you replace it with yyy or remove it?").
Now, ...
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Questions auto bumped by the Community User even though they are locked
The "documentation" was wrong; the guy who wrote that was full of crap.
As far as I can tell, the system has never stopped locked questions from being bumped - they just tend to not qualify for ...
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"Please consider adding a comment" yet the question is locked and therefore unable to be commented on
Thanks for pointing this out. I went in and disallowed this popup from appearing if the user is unable to comment on the post.
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Why is this post "locked" instead of removed?
Well, in this specific situation - the locking reflects that the post has historic significance but no longer reflects how we do things. Being locked, its unlikely anyone's taken a good look at it ...
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Allow moderators to fine-tune the effects of a lock
I won't status-completed this because we've only done a small portion of your request so far, which is to make it clearer in the lock dialog what the lock is actually going to do:
Bit of a wall-o-...
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Please unlock “Fram's ban on Wikipedia…What can Stack Exchange learn from it?”
Could Stack Exchange have learned from Wikipedia's event which occurred in June, 2019. Did both companies commit serious errors? Were either one professional and transparent?
I think there's one way ...
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Cannot unfollow locked post from Following tab
This was fixed at the end of last week. You should be able to follow or unfollow locked posts both from the post itself and from your user profile.
Thanks for the report!
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Why is this post "locked" instead of removed?
I'm of the impression that the cynicism in the actual question itself is being drowned out by either angst or frustration in this present day and age.
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Please unlock “Fram's ban on Wikipedia…What can Stack Exchange learn from it?”
I think locking the post is a sensible option. There is clearly a difference of opinion within the community about whether the question should be open or not. When a question gets closed and reopened ...
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My view on an answer has changed dramatically but it is locked - who can help?
Considering it's historically locked, the question and answers shouldn't be updated. That banner shows the content should be taken with a grain of salt already, so I wouldn't feel obligated to get the ...
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What does it mean for a question to be disputed?
While your main question is most likely a duplicate, I like your feature request suggestion to add a place for a reader to understand the nature of the dispute. Obviously, there may be certain facts ...
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Should Jeff Atwood's question about downvote weight be unlocked?
The question Should the weight of downvotes be increased? appears to have already been unlocked by @Tinkeringbell, presumably as a result of this Meta SE question, and about two hours after it was ...
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Locking a question as a "content dispute" is incorrectly locking the answers and hiding the vote buttons, like "historical" and "obsolete" locks
I've fixed this issue - it was due to a bug where we updated a specific check without making sure that change didn't have unintended effects in other places where that check was used. Please let me ...
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Make locking posts more granular
This should definitely be revisited now that the "off-topic comments" lock has been revamped to have granular effects: that lock now only prevents comments, without preventing other interactions.
In ...
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Please unlock “Fram's ban on Wikipedia…What can Stack Exchange learn from it?”
Let's be objective, then.
Looking at the history of the post, I count no fewer than three reviews in which the question should be "left closed". Contrast that to the two "leave open" reviews done. ...
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Can policy-locked posts be locked for comments? What happens if the comments end up going out of hand on a policy-locked post?
No. Currently they can't. As of 16 Sept 2020, this is now possible.
It's still true that we don't allow more than one type of lock on a post at the same time but we now have two classes of lock - ...
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Can we show post lock timers to all users?
This is now status-completed with the rollout of the new post notices:
This applies to both questions and answers: as you can see, the screenshot above was taken from an answer.
Hovering over the ...
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Post remains featured in the bulletin even if [featured] tag is removed
This is now fixed, hopefully permanently. The issue related to a bug in the Tag Engine (which is used by the API and site when filtering by tags) that affected locked posts.
bug in tag engine
stopped ...
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Please unlock “Fram's ban on Wikipedia…What can Stack Exchange learn from it?”
Unfortunately - the only real way I could have made my comment more visible was editing the original post (boo) or deleting all the comments (and in this case it didn't feel like the right thing yet). ...
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Edit wars with new users
Question 2 - New users
In "old" forums it's common to have a conversation where the question changes subtly or completely over a sequence of posts. As humans we are accustomed to holding a ...
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How can one see the number of reopen votes that were cast and that haven't expired yet on a question that is now locked?
You can use the "Retrieve close, reopen and delete votes" userscript written by Double-Beep.
Github (direct install).
Using this method, you do not need enough reputation to view reopen ...
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Why does the "Post Locked" explanation suggest visiting Meta... on Meta?
This is no longer the case, 11 and a half years later. The post notice looks like this now:
The link on "disputes about this answer's content" goes to the help center article on locked ...
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Inconsistency of UI between locked and historically locked
Internally, questions that are locked for historical significance receive a different kind of lock from questions locked for any other reason (this includes manual locks, locks as merge or migration ...
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Highly active inactive question?
It's hard for someone with less than 10K reputation to see what's happened to that post to cause it to be protected. However generally questions are protected because they are or have been spam or low ...
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