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I noticed a new featured question on Meta Stack Overflow. Upon visiting it, I found it had four close votes. As a moderator I can fix that easily enough, but it led me to consider why we allow that.

To be featured, a question must have the tag. Only diamond users can add that tag, and it serves to add it to a reserved slot in the side board across the main site. It seems silly that community members can then close something for what can only be termed as a method of disapproval. It's even more silly that people will now have to review the vote(s).

Close votes should not be allowed on any questions with the tag. Once the tag is removed it can be closed like any other question.

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    I very much agree. And, while a big jump from this specific proposal, what do you think about questions with any orange (moderator) tags not being able to be closed (by us)? Commented Apr 7 at 0:23
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    @security_paranoid Some orange tags should be closable (such as [status-complete]). I might support making [status-review] unclosable (separate discussion). I am not in favor of making them all unclosable. [featured] is really a temporary status. Commented Apr 7 at 12:16
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    Came the close votes before or after the question was featured? If before, should the CVs be invalidated (if this FR is implemented) or kept? If they are kept, then it should still be possible to retract close votes though. I.e. not just disable the dialog as a whole. Commented Apr 7 at 19:14
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    @Lino As long as the question wasn't closed successfully before featuring, the votes could be retracted or aged away and could be re-cast later. Commented Apr 8 at 1:54
  • My answer got removed, so I posted it as a question: Why aren't users who abuse close votes suspended from close voting for a while? Commented May 20 at 19:51

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