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Should "Do role-playing games have to be fun?" be closed?
TL;DR: This is a nice question and has useful answers but it's an unbounded list/poll question with clarity issues. It should get a historical lock because it's still a useful reference despite not ...
13
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Accepted
Why is this question about 5e dragonborn homebrew locked as a content dispute?
The post is unlocked now. (It would have automatically unlocked in another 20 minutes anyway.)
I locked it (for an hour - the lowest option) as a first/second step in handling a quickly developing ...
10
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Does this question about smartphone apps for LARP combat really need a historical lock?
Tool questions are no longer on-topic
Per this question, tool questions were deemed to be off-topic Are tool recommendation questions on topic?
As such a question about LARP Apps no longer would be ...
8
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Does this question about smartphone apps for LARP combat really need a historical lock?
It can probably go.
After recommendation requests were (re)made off-topic, it was standard operating procedure to close and lock them when they were bumped or otherwise discovered in the course of ...
8
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Accepted
Can we get voting unlocked on this post please?
Sure thing. Sorry about that.
What locking does and doesn't do to a post is actually poorly documented, and because mod abilities are different it's not easily testable by us either. The lock reasons ...
7
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Should we lock community check-in posts on Meta once we open a new one?
There’s another tool that you can use to determine what voting happened when: the timeline. (It’s that circular button under the downvote button.) For example, you can see that the answer “It feels ...
6
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Accepted
Does this question about smartphone apps for LARP combat really need a historical lock?
The mod team is on board with the arguments people have made here for deleting the question. We've also verified the question is in fact taking up a priority SEO spot despite the app being defunct.
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6
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Accepted
Can these 3 locked questions be unprotected?
I've gone ahead and unprotected these 3 questions now; as you point out, there's no possible issue that can arise from unprotecting questions that have been permanently locked. (I think all types of ...
4
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Should locked questions be unprotected?
These questions should be unprotected going by the Privileges page
The Privileges page describes protected questions as follows:
[...] Questions should be protected when they are attracting poor ...
Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible
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