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This is by design and is a recent change.
The syntax you see inserts the image and creates a link to the image. This way images that are larger than the column for posts can be scaled down in the post but the full version of the image is easily gotten to.
The syntax to do that has been around for a long time, it's just that the image button was recently ...
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I suspect that you have click "featured" from the homepage then navigated to tagged/facebook.
It will keep your initial selection when browsing elsewhere e.g. through each of the tags.
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The decision whether this error is rendered is made on the server when the add comment link is rendered (it has an additional data-reg="true" attribute), since it also depends on other things that would require an additional round-trip to the server each time a user clicks this button - which we don't want.
After you've reached the required rep you need to ...
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This appeared in the review queue for late answers and the user was classed as new as they only had one previous answer (which was deleted)
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I had a look earlier when there were 4 questions & now, which has 5 featured questions, and both cases the number's shown correctly. It's probably a caching issue.
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In the rare cases where this happens, it's supposed to - we don't want them making the page extremely long when added up.
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It looks that the threshold is 10 votes, as jonsca mentioned in a comment to the question.
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Your source of rep is the association bonus, which is ignored when the check for protected questions is done. Hence, you cannot answer. This has been marked as status-by-design over here Stack Exchange doesn't allow me to answer protected questions because I gave away earned rep in bounties
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