Timeline for Why is this question closed (_and_ locked)?
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| Mar 18, 2013 at 15:13 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @MattDavey: Well, I hope we can both agree that the question is not a very good one. Consequently the focus shifts from keeping the question open (which is hopeless) to preserving it (protecting it from eventual deletion). The question would be a much better one if it asked about where and when comments should be used (almost certainly a duplicate of some other question), rather than the flame bait and bikeshedding bait that it currently is. | |
| Mar 18, 2013 at 13:03 | comment | added | MattDavey | Who decides whether or not a question warrants any further activity? Apparently, like so many things on this site, that decision has been taken away from the community and now lies with a few individuals. | |
| Mar 17, 2013 at 0:46 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | @Izkata: You didn't answer my prior question. Does this post really need more input from anyone else? Locking prevents posts from being updated, so it's only done on posts where there's clearly nothing of substantial value that anyone can add. | |
| Mar 16, 2013 at 21:39 | comment | added | Izkata |
It is not a straw man because you said it yourself: Closing and locking means that the question is already adequately answered, we're not accepting any more answers, and the post is protected from deletion. So why not just do it to all questions with accepted answers?
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| Mar 16, 2013 at 21:38 | comment | added | Robert Harvey |
They were new users; the answer should've been downvoted and explained to them why an additional answer was not necessary -- Or, we can just lock the question and be done with it.
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| Mar 16, 2013 at 21:37 | comment | added | Robert Harvey |
So you advocate locking all questions that have an accepted answer? -- That's a straw man. Do you have any questions for me that are not straw men?
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| Mar 16, 2013 at 21:36 | comment | added | Izkata | They were new users; the answer should've been downvoted and explained to them why an additional answer was not necessary | |
| Mar 16, 2013 at 21:35 | comment | added | Izkata | So you advocate locking all questions that have an accepted answer? | |
| Mar 16, 2013 at 21:34 | comment | added | Robert Harvey | Does the question really need more answers, from anyone? | |
| Mar 16, 2013 at 21:32 | comment | added | Izkata | The vast majority of those "me, too" answers are by users that are low-rep even now; it may well have been their first posts on this site. If it existed back then, the correct course of action would've been to put that new user protection on the question (where you need some amount of rep to post an answer). | |
| Mar 16, 2013 at 21:13 | history | answered | Robert Harvey | CC BY-SA 3.0 |