Questions tagged [post-ban]
A post ban means that a user is blocked from asking new questions, or posting new answers.
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Should migrations continue to be allowed if the author is question-banned but their 6-month rate has opened up, or should they be blocked?
This is a follow-up to my prior question Are migrations allowed if the user is banned on the destination site, but their 6-month limit has opened up?.
For context, users who are banned from asking ...
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Votes on rejected migration on destination site should not contribute positively or negatively to post ban calculation on the destination site
A moderator on one site requests migration and the post comes to the destination site. The destination site rejects the migration, but in the process, the migrated question received plenty of votes in ...
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The "Ask Question" page shows a "question ban" page to suspended users instead of showing that the user is suspended [duplicate]
When I was suspended on MSE, I tried to ask question while being suspended. The page showed:
I think it should show the "You are suspended" page or something like that. Currently this page ...
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Question Ban page has no formatting on SO and is rendered as gibberish on RU.SO
The situation is this: I asked the wrong question on https://stackoverflow.com, after which I received a ban on asking questions (I am not appealing the decision). But the ban itself looks strange.
I ...
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Can a single downvote cause a question to contribute towards a Q-ban?
A question ban is much worse than a temporary ban. One question per six months forever, versus just waiting a fixed time and coming back like nothing ever happened.
Only moderators can dish out ...
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Question ban without any reason [duplicate]
I got a question ban on Physics SE. The reason stated was that most of my questions did not met the guidelines. However, most of my questions have positive votes. What is the reason for the ban?
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Missing full stop in help center for answer bans
I've seen a bug on the page Why are answers no longer being accepted from my account?.
The one part of this page is:
The only way to end a posting block is to positively contribute to the site; ...
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Deleting closed off-topic questions and the post ban
tl;dr We're very quick (at some sites) in deleting closed off-topic questions. By doing so we're closing doors for people with "We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account"...
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When will Stack Overflow remove my ban? [duplicate]
Some months ago, I got banned from asking a question on Stack Overflow, because I was new and asking non-programming related questions on that site. So Stack Overflow banned me. Now if I try to ask a ...
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Do non-duplicate closed questions contribute to a post ban?
We know from the FAQ on duplicate questions that:
[T]here's no automatic penalty if your question gets marked as a duplicate of another.
via an edit from Tim Post with the summary:
Other ...
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Should I flag again when the system automatically handles the rude/abusive flag?
After receiving very useful advice in a previous Meta Q&A, a certain troll has seen their posts becoming very short-lived. With the help of other community members, we close, flag, and delete the ...
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Does the SE network have an effective process in place to deal with aggressively toxic users?
I welcome any details that can be shared, but I understand if there are specifics that cannot be. I am primarily interested in whether the process exists, rather than what that process is.
What's been ...
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Are questions with no vote and/or no answer going to have a negative effect on my questioning profile in the network?
This is not actually a duplicate of Can I get banned for asking questions which don't attract answers or votes?
I am not asking if only asking questions with no score can get someone banned from ...
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If a user is banned from posting answers, state so before they start writing the answer
Answer-banned users aren't informed they can't post an answer before they try to post an answer (which typically happens after they write an answer). They're only notified when they've finished their ...
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Post ban warning not showing up
Back in 2014, a warning was added for posters who are on their way to receiving a question ban. That post includes screenshots of the warning, but the visual styling depicted in the screenshots is ...
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