Add configuration option to make disallow answering clarifications without claiming

[meisterT]

Currently claiming a clarification is purely decorative and doesn't enforce anything. The jury at the finals requested to make it actually impossible to reply to a clarification which is claimed by another jury member.

This could be a configuration setting.

[thijskh]

Is the issue that people replied to things they didn't notice were claimed by someone else? Would it already be helpful (for all installations) to have a warning at the reply box: "You are now replying to a claification claimed by X"?

[meisterT]

Multiple jury members answered the same clarification. So a dialog like you propose that checks for whether the question has been claimed or answered sounds useful.

[as6325400]

It seems like this issue hasn't been resolved yet?

I think we could add a 'strong claim' option.

This option would prevent other jury members from responding.

And for regular claims, we could add an additional alert notification, just like mentioned above."

[eldering]

I don't think a "strong claim" option is great, since we always allow someone to respond to a clarification, even if a response has already been sent. So blocking that would require adding extra complexity.
I think @thijskh's suggestion would be good enough to prevent people from answering inadvertently, both if the clarification was claimed or replied to in the mean time.

[as6325400]

Okay, I can take on this task.