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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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1 answer
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Can't get rid of questions restriction

I updated all of my questions, and they all follow the guidelines. I also tried my best to update the deleted questions I have. Obviously I can't provide code or context on a 4 year old question. And ...
lagicarus's user avatar
43 votes
0 answers
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How can I improve my questions if the majority of them are almost 10 years old?

To give some context, I have been given a question ban, and I've been told to edit my questions. The issue however is that the majority of my questions are over 8 years old. I would've written these ...
Rowan Harley's user avatar
31 votes
0 answers
218 views

Send users in a question ban to the Staging Ground when asking a question

This is something that has been raised a few times, both on announcement posts and in the private Team; however, I am posting a formal request to make it so that users that are in a question ban are ...
Thom A's user avatar
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1 answer
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How can I get unbaned from an answer ban? [duplicate]

I have only five questions and get more downvotes than I get the downvotes. That let I ban. I have asked on Meta Stack Exchange, but it does not have any answer. I tried to edit the posts, but it ...
Googol's user avatar
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1 answer
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Why, exactly, is opting to delete your account, then opting to later return to the site, not recommended if you are question banned?

If you are question banned, rate limited to 1 question per 6 months, and then you delete and recreate your account, you will be limited 1 question per week. This is by design because otherwise they ...
user22200698's user avatar
24 votes
0 answers
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Implement a discussion ban system similar to the question ban

While people that are question banned can't post on discussions, nothing is happening to those who abuse discussions and post all their low quality questions there. Because these people never post ...
Fastnlight's user avatar
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1 answer
275 views

How can I remove an answer ban, if I agree with why one was deleted? [duplicate]

I recently found I have an answer ban, after finding a couple of my posts were deleted. The documentation recommends that users in my situation edit their posts to be correct, so that this ban be ...
Mark's user avatar
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14 votes
3 answers
866 views

Why can't moderators lift automated bans?

I have seen from various comments and in the rules of Stack Overflow that moderators cannot remove question or answer bans, no matter what. How does the deciding who/for how long to ban and unbanning ...
Ryley's user avatar
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1 answer
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I need assistance understanding the problem with my question

I got a question ban on Stack Overflow. It is somewhat reasonable: it actually took me a long time to grasp how the community tends to respond to questions, and I had a few "please help me out ...
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-14 votes
2 answers
443 views

Are these questions really bad enough to get ban on Stack Overflow?

First of all, I already read What can I do when getting “We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account”?. Please don't forward me there again. Please help me with these negative score ...
Denis's user avatar
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1 answer
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I would like to be able to ask questions again. What more can I do to improve my existing questions? [duplicate]

As per this page, when asking questions is disabled for your account, you are supposed to go edit and improve your existing questions until the nebulous "system" (an algorithm I assume?) ...
Ethan Maness's user avatar
-22 votes
3 answers
388 views

Help me understand why this question is not focused enough [closed]

Need help understanding why this was flagged as not focused enough: How do I map a url to a specific folder in apache The question got closed for lacking focus and my ask privileges were revoked ...
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2 answers
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How can I improve my question to remove a question ban?

I run into a "circular reference" problem with my question: original question I don’t have any idea how to be more specific on the problem (how to generate the list of the quarters of the ...
JanisE's user avatar
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-10 votes
1 answer
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How much setting bounties are effective to get out of question ban?

Setting Bounties drop attention to your questions. So if I set a bounty on one of my well-written unanswered questions, will that be effective to get rid of my question ban?
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1 vote
1 answer
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Are migrated questions affecting my history?

Recently, I got unable to ask new questions in StackOverflow. I understand that I should not appeal this is meta, but what I want to know is that why my migrated questions affect my questions' history....
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