Ability to protect questions on Meta and Main

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I recently passed 15k, and apparently that gives me an extra privilege.

You've gained the privilege - protect questions

I can see that I can do that in Meta:

Protect link

But I don't seem to be able to do that on the main site:

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Have I misinterpreted something? Both sites are showing the same rep number. I couldn't find anything on meta.SO about this difference.

tchrist · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-23 15:08:49Z

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As a non-moderator, you have to wait 24 hours before you can protect a question.

answered Dec 23 '12 at 15:08

tchrist♦

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Aha. Thanks: I didn't look back far enough in the main site. It would be nice for that restriction to be documented somewhere and easily found, though. – Andrew Leach♦ Dec 23 '12 at 15:13
What Andrew said. How come you know this, tchrist? – FumbleFingers Dec 23 '12 at 22:54
@FumbleFingers It is just the way it works. I thought everyone knew. The original request and the status-completed bit is on MSO, with such details included. – tchrist♦ Dec 24 '12 at 4:33
Each individual user would presumably only have a single 24-hour window in which to even be aware of anything odd going on. I can't imagine that many would notice in the first place - and most of those that did would probably just shrug their shoulders and forget about it after the next day (by which time it would be a "non-issue"). There aren't that many ELU users who could be affected anyway. Whatever - there's at least an argument for saying if you could find the MSO original, you should include a link here (maybe we could close this one as a duplicate! :) – FumbleFingers Dec 24 '12 at 4:47

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