Locking a question prevents answering, editing, commenting, voting, closing, and reopening. Answers must be locked separately and may still be voted upon. Only diamond moderators may lock posts.
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Remove comments instead of locking the question
My question was locked due to "high amount of off-topic comments generated".
Two users involved in an argument added several off-topic comments. I had nothing to do with it and it had nothing to do ...
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Why is this question locked [duplicate]
The following question which was migrated from stats.stack-exchange.com, has been locked.
Book bar-code Scanner
I tried to edit the question, because It could be written as
How Can I scan and ...
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locked:no search option returns locked answers anyway
The query is:answer locked:no returns locked answers (e.g. What is your most productive shortcut with Vim?) despite the "locked:no" option.
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Bug in comment link not appearing for trusted users and moderators [duplicate]
This question, which was migrated from Writers.SE to ELU, is missing its comment link.
The posting is not locked (on ELU, the way it now is due to migration back on Writers), and neither trusted ...
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Post gets unlocked and locked right after closing
Is there any explanation as to why this post would become unlocked, then locked? Curiously enough, the post was edited after that, so it couldn't really have been locked, can it?
The time stamps ...
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A special kind of lock?
I've now noticed two closed questions that didn't have a reopen link:
Is Stack Overflow killing itself by parental control?
and
Tired of serverfault moderators
Is this a special kind of lock that ...
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“Post Locked” should link to the meta FAQ on post locking
I recently ran into this locked question and noticed the bottom part says:
It suggests I visit meta for more information. That does not seem very informative to me.
Suggestions:
The word locked ...
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Can we get a comments only lock?
Currently moderators have the ability to lock posts, for any of the following reasons:
Content dispute (~ edit wars),
Historical significance (to prevent great but off topic questions from being ...
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Allow 10k users to soft-lock questions
I would like to see a soft-lock feature for 10k users. This can be considered a scaled-down version of Content Dispute lock available to diamond moderators (for the record, "mod lock" lasts for a ...
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Don't lock questions that migrate and close as “not constructive”?
I've come across a few questions on Programmers that got migrated from SO, closed as "not-constructive", and then locked by the Community user.
I'm assuming the lock is to prevent the question from ...
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Why are the voting arrows still displayed on the some locked questions?
For most locked questions, the arrows are now removed on the main question and on all answers. For example:
However, on RegEx match open tags except XHTML self-contained tags, in which the question ...
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Why did Community unlock this undeleted post?
It looks like Community unlocked this posting on Hidden Features of PHP. Was this intentional, or just a daemon that kicked off somewhere?
I ask because Robert Harvey on March 10th seems to have ...
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Why is this question not shown at “highest voted logo questions” even if it has a net vote of 210? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is a historical lock, and what is it used for?
This question has a net upvote of 210 and has been favourited 71 times. It contains the tags logo and turtle. Yet if ...
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Should the “hello world” contest be migrated to codegolf and unlocked? [closed]
This question is known for the famous Jon-Skeet-made-a-1-byte-program-to-output-"Hello World", it's currently locked under Stack Overflow, however, this question is valid in my eyes over on Code Golf.
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Always show the “edit” link grayed out for locked questions, independently from the reason why the question was locked
If I look at What are some tips or tricks for Terminal in Mac OS X? I don't see any "edit" link, while I see it (although it is grayed out) on Good movies for learning English.
The ...
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Why was this question “unlocked by Community”?
Here's the question in question (sorry).
Is this some sort of default that happens approximately a week after a mod locks a question but doesn't take any further action?
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Why was this question locked?
I would like to know why the following question was locked: Ajax.ActionLink in MVC3 Not Working
I was trying to gather more feedback from the user to understand the behavior described in his question ...
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Useless “add comment” link on answer to locked question [closed]
This question, titled "New Feature: Community Review Tasks - Now in Beta", has been locked "for historical relevance". It's also "community wiki".
I wanted to edit my answer, but I can't because the ...
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Why are heavily downvoted answers not dimmed if the question is locked?
The popular question about improving a Markdown help formatting example has just been locked.
(Disclaimer: I have no problem with that, it was a fun and IMHO efficient way to solve that very specific ...
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Can we do something about misleading message and link on locked questions?
Locked questions get unhelpful messages like this:
My problem with this is that it implies that if I go to meta, I'll get more information about why that specific question is locked, perhaps ...
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Why review low quality answers to locked questions?
This comes up in the review pane for Review Low Quality Posts
http://stackoverflow.com/review-beta/low-quality-posts/71833
This is really a "piss poor" answer (quote from the answer) to a not very ...
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Change dispute message on per-site Meta
Currently, if content is disputed on a per-site Meta, the message is.
This post has been locked while disputes about its content are being resolved. For more info visit meta.
...with a link to ...
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Unable To Flag A Response on a Locked Post. Feature or Bug?
According to this feature-request, which is now [status-completed], it should be possible for me to be able to flag a this response to a locked question, but I can't.
I have plenty of rep on SO. Is ...
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Why i can't vote a locked question? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is a historical lock, and what is it used for?
Can someone explain to me why I cannot vote on this "f***ing" question?
Joking apart, why was this decision made?
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Deleting comments on locked posts fails silently
Trying to delete your own comment from a locked post doesn't work, but there is no indication that it failed. No error message, and the comment even disappears, but of course it's back when you ...
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Don't display “protected” notice if the question is locked or closed
If the question is locked, obviously new users can't post answers to it because no one can post answers. It seems somewhat redundant to list that box there. I'm not saying remove the protection from ...
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Not finding the answer panel on a locked question [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is a historical lock, and what is it used for?
I want to provide an answer for the following question
What are your favorite extension methods for C#? ...
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Lock timer doesn't work for answers
When a diamond moderator locks a question, there's a choice to have it auto-unlock in an hour, a day, a week, or not at all. Generally, this function works fine.
However, I locked every post on this ...
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Show lock banners on rejected migrations
When a migration gets rejected, it gets locked automatically.
Auto-locking seems to be what happened with Methods to stop Software Piracy?. It behaves like a locked question and its revision history ...
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Can we please get The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List question unlocked again?
To set the scene:
In the recent Great Question Deletion Audit of 2012, this answer of mine — explaining why it's not in SO's interest to delete The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List question —, ...
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Locked posts appear in review queues [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
New beta Review displays locked posts
I couldn't find a question of which this is an exact duplicate. So here it is.
Suggesting people to review something they cannot ...
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This post has been locked while disputes about its content are being resolved
I posted an answer to this question, which did not satisfy the OP, hence his downvote.
After some comments, he replaced his own question with bogus and walked through some of my recent answers to ...
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Locked questions without RSS feed still refer to it in the HTML
Locked questions seem to have no Atom/RSS feed (which makes sense, I guess), but still refer to it in the HTML source. Hardly an issue for humans, I assume, but maybe it has some other effects.
For ...
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Should the historical lock feature be applied to old historical deleted questions?
This is a continuation of my old question based on the new locking feature discussed here.
The same goes for questions on the popular deleted questions list
Should those deleted historical questions ...
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Make locking posts more granular
Locking a post has very severe consequences for a post, you cannot
Upvote or downvote on it
Edit it
Vote to close or reopen it
comment on it
Add new answers to it
Because of these severe ...
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Locked-time note has a wrong wording
I recently locked a question on a site and decided to keep it locked for 1 hour. Everything went fine but the part that refers to the "time-out" has a wrong wording. It says "Unlocks in in 59 ...
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A new look for locked questions?
Is the SE team hard at work tweaking the UI for locked questions, or is the web proxy at my job randomly blocking stuff?
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How many questions on meta have asked, “Why can't I ask this question when that question is open”?
One of the main arguments against keeping old, fun posts in a locked state is that they create broken windows, which serve as an advertisement for the types of questions which are ...
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Improve the historical significance banner
Some highly popular questions were recently un-deleted, and put into a locked mode with a banner announcing that they exist for their historical significance only.
This question exists because it ...
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Please unlock this answer to The Many Memes of Meta
The "Changing your Meta name on a whim" answer in The Many Memes of Meta is locked.
The info text says:
This post has been locked while disputes about its content are being resolved. For more ...
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Locked question countdown message is wrong
I just noticed this when tending to a locked question:
I think the wording is a bit skewiff.
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Question locked because too chatty?
This question has been locked: Efficient algorithm to find all the paths from A to Z? because there were (apparently) too much comments under the original question. No arguing from me about that, ...
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Why does the “Post Locked” explanation suggest visiting Meta… on Meta?
The "Post Locked" banner suggests visiting Meta to get more info... even if the post in question is on Meta.
Shouldn't it link to the FAQ instead? Granted, the FAQ does not contain any info on this ...
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Do not lock old questions
So I was doing a bit of cleanup on Stack Overflow. Going through the polls tag and voting to delete the worst offenders, the ones that asked for “one item per answer”, and got it, and ended up with a ...
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Will off-topic comments/answers lead to closing or locking of a question?
What will happen if a question gets off-topic answers or comments?
Can someone else's answers or comments lead to the closing or locking of my question?
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Does being able to protect a question that was deleted, and locked by the Community user make sense?
On EL&U, I was able to protect a question (the links is for 10k users) that was already deleted and locked by the Community user. Is this the expected behavior?
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Why is there such a description about locked questions in the FAQ? [closed]
In SO's FAQ, you declared
A question that gets opened and closed repeatedly many times without achieving community consensus on whether it should stay open or closed.
in the section "When ...
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Vote changes are not reverted on locked posts [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Vote arrow not reset when attempting to undo vote on locked post
This is a very minor UI thing. When attempting to change an existing vote on a locked post the "you ...
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Are questions tagged [status-completed] closed/locked?
Does the status-completed tag effectively close / lock a question?
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Why are many old popular questions locked instead of closed?
If you look through the first several pages of top-voted questions, almost all of them are old and would now be considered non-constructive or off-topic. Some are closed, but it seems like most of ...
