If I ask a question, and it gets downvoted and closed, would it be a good idea to delete and recreate my account, to erase the question from my question record? Doing so effectively disassociates the question from the author, and can clean up my profile and not make me look as bad if all my post(s) were of negative score, or closed.
One may be tempted to do this. But is this really a good idea?
If you do this to the point that you're abusing the delete account feature to stay out of a question ban, moderators will become the wiser and you risk becoming temporarily banned. If you do this once or twice, you still probably shouldn't risk it.
I learned this from experience:
Hello,
We're writing in reference to your Meta Stack Exchange account:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/users/1370400/user1345541
We've noted you deleted your account a couple of times; if you didn't, you'd clearly be banned by the system from asking more questions. Deleting and recreating your account is clearly not the right way to circumvent this.
We really want you to have a good experience here, and the first step to that is making sure that questions you submit are clear, on topic and provide all of the information someone would need to answer. You may have noticed that questions you’ve asked weren’t well received by the community; they were downvoted and closed.
There are a number of potential reasons for this and we’d like to help you diagnose exactly what’s happening. Questions may be downvoted and closed because they fit one of our closure criteria, or are of the type that we’d prefer users refrain from asking. While we’re excited that you’re contributing, we ask that you please take some time to read the information linked below - prior to asking another question - in order to assure the best possible experience (both for yourself, and also for other community members):
- A brief guide on how to ask questions
- A short summary of questions we permit
Your account has been temporarily suspended for 7 days. While you’re suspended, your reputation will show as 1 but will be restored once the suspension ends.
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Meta Stack Exchange Moderation Team
