Have you seen the "closed" messages? From the bottom of here: https://stackoverflow.com/help/closed-questions https://stackoverflow.com/help/closed-questions

Have you seen the "closed" messages? From the bottom of here: https://stackoverflow.com/help/closed-questions https://stackoverflow.com/help/closed-questions Closed "low quality" questions are marked "on hold" for five days, when they can be commented on and edited to be improved upon, and go into a review queue. From memory that message is in the big yellow close box on the question - that it is on hold pending improvement and review - but I can't google any to see. What you describe sounds like that, but in a separate area and without downvotes. Or, it sounds like they've tried to implement what you describe. Would it work if downvotes were reset when it got put on hold?