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gnat
gnat
12:45 PM
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A: How many questions escape community protection because of reputation gained within checked question?

gnatObserving for last 5-6 months how protection works (or more precisely fails to work) leaves me quite disappointed. Unless stats show that my observations somehow miss the big picture, I would say that it is probably broken, at least at the sites I am active at (Programmers and Workplace). As an ...

> As an example, take a look at recent question at TWP. It has quickly got three troublesome answers (1, 2, 3) - all from new users having less than 10 on-site reputation, all with negative score (one is even already deleted). Still, protection didn't kick in...
this is an excellent example of the kind of content studied in Answers quality in hot questions. It only lacks a senseless sympathy upvote obscuring a downvote cast by some of the site regulars to perfectly simulate how things usually go... oh wait I can do that upvote myself, strictly for the demo purposes! :) — gnat Aug 22 at 11:41
 
 
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Jim G.
Jim G.
2:07 PM
You listed all the answers to your question then said you don't want to do them. This is not a real question, I'm voting to close. — djechlin yesterday
^^^ Can someone with 459 rep really vote to close?
 
 
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gnat
gnat
4:23 PM
@JimG. they can flag to close
 

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