Timeline for What should I do when I see a "question ban warning"?
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| Mar 22, 2015 at 11:06 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | @MartinF - no. It gets downvoted because it is bad, off-topic, badly phrased, shows no research or one of many other reasons. A question being useful doesn't mean it can't also suffer from other issues that would make it a target for downvotes. | |
| Mar 21, 2015 at 17:34 | comment | added | Martin F | @Oded: Sorry, i don't understand the latter part of this: "Useful doesn't mean it it good - that's very much what the downvotes would signify." The question is getting down-votes because it is useful? | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 19:04 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | @martinf - voting should be done against a post not a person. The message comes up after a pattern of bad posts. If someone can't separate voting on the quality of the post that's a shame - but people are not voting against a person here. Useful doesn't mean it it good - that's very much what the downvotes would signify. | |
| Mar 20, 2015 at 17:31 | comment | added | Martin F | @Oded -- If it is such a useful question -- and i, too, believe it is -- then why does it also (presumably other OP questions also have down-votes) get down-voted so much? All these down-votes are a terrible blow to one's self-esteem. That is, they are an insult and, in this case especially, hypocritical. It's like the Salem Witch trials all over again. Or, mixing metaphors, "Have you ever been guilty of asking, or thinking about asking, a bad question? Anything you say, or don't say, will used against you!" | |
| Jun 28, 2014 at 6:56 | comment | added | Oded StaffMod | @andya - Why? It is a useful question to have on the site. Other people who encounter the message and are confused can now find it and get a response. Which is the goal of our sites - to have questions and answer that are useful for many people. | |
| Jun 28, 2014 at 6:04 | comment | added | Pandya | @Oded I want to delete my question!? | |
| Jun 22, 2014 at 22:57 | comment | added | ɥʇǝS | @justcool393 The warnings are enabled on all sites, regardless of whether the ban is or not. I don't know if the ban is enabled on meta.. | |
| Jun 15, 2014 at 21:19 | comment | added | Justine Krejcha | I wonder if the OP is talking about Meta SE. I'm getting a question ban warning here too as well, and I my posts weren't that downvoted. (He even links to the SE ask page). | |
| Jun 15, 2014 at 15:04 | comment | added | Braiam | @Arjan I figure yes, they are. (The user seems more active on AU, which has questions quality bans enabled.) | |
| Jun 15, 2014 at 11:44 | comment | added | Arjan | Just curious: are the links referring to stackoverflow.com/help/question-bans and stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask (and their site-specific equivalents)? | |
| Jun 15, 2014 at 9:13 | vote | accept | Pandya | ||
| Jun 15, 2014 at 8:04 | history | edited | OdedStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 15, 2014 at 7:50 | history | answered | OdedStaffMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |