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People are abusing public discussions to ask for help. Not only they are abusing the site and evading restrictions, they are also wasting time of people in collectives. They post non-discussion topics which often should be questions. These "discussion topics" are plagued by the same quality issues that their questions on main had, for which they received the automatic ban. The system should not allow them to evade restrictions by posting their questions as discussions.

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    I am only sorry that I cannot upvote this at least a hundred times.
    – Dalija Prasnikar Mod
    Commented Jan 17 at 16:19
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    Feature request: get rid of discussions (until properly fixed). By properly fixed, I mean red flag automations, syncing with question bans, moderator tooling, rate limiting, and an API (for bots). Did I miss anything (probably yes)?
    – Fastnlight
    Commented Jan 17 at 17:22
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    @Fastnlight: Applying the 'very low quality' filter (used to move questions into some of the review queues) to discussion posts, perhaps?.
    – Peter Mortensen
    Commented Jan 17 at 19:57
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    @PeterMortensen that would imply adding review queues for discussions
    – Fastnlight
    Commented Jan 17 at 20:22

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This change has been made. Users banned from asking questions will not be able to create new posts in Discussions.

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