Regarding: https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/106407/steal-the-gold-wait-does-it-even-exist-what-is-it

I am sure this is common, but a post I made that started off as a rant/opinion generator, revealed a deeper question I wanted answered, however, it took some time to elicit this, so a lot of comments back and forth.  It seems there was interest in the question in each of its various forms.  However, to an extent, I feel I had gotten some negative reviews based on assumptions from people who had read the original question.  That is probably not the case at this point though.

I am recently trying to ask a question regarding gold in roleplaying game, particularly the Dungeons and Dragons games.  I was told that it was too broad in scope of editions of the game.  However, I feel the only relevant piece of info is that gold adds abilities to your character sheet you can do in a combat round, so it applies to any edition.

Realizing the converse of that, I realize a question on any edition would actually answer *my* question on all editions, so I am willing to change it to 5e specific.  

Someone referred in comments that my question involved a "step-function," and was black and white, but my question implies that maybe gold is somewhere in between.

I am not sure what to do at this point, is it just locked for too many comments, or did a moderator lock it?