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Does such a limited locking feature exist? I thought the lock levels were like trade, forum, site. It wasn't forseeable imo to be able to arbitrarily lock site features vs disabling an entire account that was causing significant collateral effects. Niet explicitly said he didn't even have enough access at that point to do a full root cause analysis due to the outage, let alone make new tools to perfectly solve it. That being said, I'm very glad that efforts will be made for the lock wording to be more explicit in the steps to take for resolution in case of error. The initial post was made two days ago. It's likely additional analysis has happened since. In particular, this quote seems informative: I don't agree that people are getting punished for using the QoL and similar features. I don't even really agree that a temporary lock after knocking over a server is "punishment". Managing the edge cases that arise because of the interaction between the intended way to do something and how people actually do it, especially after years of min/maxxing, is challenging, and sometimes unintended things will happen as a result from any party involved. I agree that there were mistakes made here, largely in messaging (what to say, when, why). But I don't think some of your characterization of the events is fair.