User blog comment:H-Man Havoc/Semi-Protected Pages/@comment-743796-20110322114800/@comment-217683-20110322193915

Or we could just leave the article in question unprotected, and remove any speculation that is inserted. You're making it out like there's some massive deluge of speculation or nonsense being inserted into articles like the Arrival article, and that somehow a 24-hour temporary protection would do away with this. There isn't, and it really wouldn't. Some of the worst speculators (just like some of the worst vandals) are registered users. And now I think we're really getting on a slippery slope. If we start enacting protections to stop speculation, what's next? Protection to stop edit wars? Protection is supposed to be a last-case measure against vandals, not a convenient fall-back for any old situation that irks us.