Back in 2010, a request was made for a search operator for protected questions. This hasn't been implemented, so I thought I'd look at it from a different angle. In November of 2016, we added the ability to see a full list of protected questions to the 10K tools page. This doesn't completely sol...

Generally when things get deleted, it's for a good reason, and we don't want users to be undeleting them -- there's a reason we require 10k rep to "see" deleted items at all, and only moderators can see deletions in a user's profile.

I'm building an application that detects plagiarized answers on Stack Overflow, so I need to retrieve the content of answers programatically. I know I can do this using the Stack Exchange API, but the API uses rate-limiting/throttling to prevent abuse. I was considering just making normal HTTP ...