Questions tagged [*protect*]
The protected-questions tag has no usage guidance.
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Can I get some examples of users assuming a question is asking about D&D 5e when it's explicitly tagged as being for another system/edition?
I know this is common, but my google-fu is failing me (particularly since the relevant search field would mostly be in the comment section of deleted answers).
Does anyone have some helpful example ...
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How should question protection be used on RPG.SE?
Goal for this discussion
Following a recent event, it became clear that RPG.SE lacks sufficient guidance and community consensus on how the protection system should be used here. The moderation team ...
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Can these 3 locked questions be unprotected?
There are 3 questions that are currently locked. However before they were locked they were protected, causing them to show up in the protected question list.
Since users cannot answer locked questions,...
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Establishing robust guidelines for protection/unprotection [duplicate]
The current policies are inadequate
After previously working through the protected questions backlog, clearing out any questions that remain protected despite no longer needing to (as per site and ...
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How has RPG.se used protection? (crunching the numbers on spam and protection)
Very soon we intend to start a discussion about how protection is used on this site going forward. To inform that discussion, I've tried to dig deep and find some data that could help guide this ...
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Should we reprotect the 700 or so questions that were unprotected in the last few weeks?
Someone recently and quietly unprotected about 700 mainsite questions. (Whether or not one should do that is under discussion here.)
Should we re-protect those questions in advance of a broader meta ...
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Should locked questions be unprotected?
There are a number of locked questions that are protected. This causes them to stay in the protected list indefinitely, hampering cleanup. Since there is no risk that low rep users are going to ...
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Why was this question protected?
To be clear, I'm not complaining about this question being protected. But I'm not sure what prompted this question to be protected, given that as far as I know only one answer got into the stuff in ...
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When should I NOT protect questions?
So, the protection requirement has always seemed extremely low to me. You can't post an answer on a protected question unless you have at least 10 rep, which is one upvote. My default behavior, now ...