What's the point of 'protecting' questions?
3541
What is a “protected” or "highly active" question?
31462
Should I flag old questions?
22937
Shouldn't there be some sort of grace period before questions can be closed?
41851
The Ability to Hide Questions
33320
Filtering "hot" questions
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Why do users often ask blatantly off-topic questions here on Meta?
79007
Improve "Protected Question" message with regard to rep gained through Association Bonus
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What's up with this question?
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Protected questions and editing
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Can we do something about misleading message and link on locked questions?
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Are historically-locked questions supposed to be hidden on meta sites now?
60994
Allow moderators or gold tag badge holders to prevent questions from being on the hot network questions (HNQ) list
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Don't tell me you're "hiding questions" when there are none to begin with
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Allow people to answer protected questions if they have earned at least some amount of combined SE rep
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Why do we vote on questions?
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Why do we have specified reasons to close questions?
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Why is asking a question on "best practice" a bad thing?