Timeline for When should a question that's been closed for being off-topic, be locked?
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| Apr 18, 2021 at 9:48 | comment | added | glS Mod | also, on a second (third?) thought, a major difference between locking and just closing is also whether people can upvote/downvote question and answers. Allowing voting would result in an incentive in asking/answering these types of questions despite them being off-topic | |
| Apr 18, 2021 at 9:39 | comment | added | glS Mod | so, having a look at the most upvoted closed questions on SO (stackoverflow.com/search?tab=votes&q=closed%3ayes) shows you why one might want to do this. See e.g. stackoverflow.com/q/549/4063051. This is closed but not locked, and the timeline (stackoverflow.com/posts/549/timeline) reveals that this resulted in it periodically getting into the reopen queue. Another example is stackoverflow.com/q/14994391/4063051, which is closed and locked, and looking at its timeline, it's likely that it was locked to prevent people from constantly trying to reopen it | |
| Apr 18, 2021 at 9:30 | comment | added | glS Mod | yes, I'm not sure whether it makes sense to use locking for these types of things. Although in fairness this seems to be done elsewhere as well, for questions that used to be on-topic but then were decided to not be allowed anymore. See e.g. physics.stackexchange.com/q/12175/58382 on physics.SE. I'm pretty sure this is done also on stackoverflow, but I can't find examples right now | |
| Apr 17, 2021 at 0:45 | history | edited | user1271772 No more free time | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 16, 2021 at 21:49 | history | asked | user1271772 No more free time | CC BY-SA 4.0 |