How to recover from poor reputation? [duplicate]

Question

I now know the error of my ways and the stack overflow community has shunned my ability to ask a question but I am on my way to recovery. How do you suggest I bounce back?
I have a question that I really need answered but I can't post and I can truly say that I regret having asked a few of my questions which were unclear.

Answer 1

The way to recover from poor reputation is :

• To understand why you have the low reputation.

I have a question that I really need answer but I can't post and I can truly say that I regret having asked a few of my questions which were unclear

• Take steps to have post ban removed:

Improve your downvoted or closed posts.

• Take step to build up your reputation with positive contribution on the site.

How to ask a good question

• Search and research
• Be on topic
• Be specific
• Make it relevant to others
• Keep an open mind

How do I write a good answer

By participating in suggested edits to improve posts, will also give you reputation bonuses.

Answer 2

This advice is for new users only.

They say you have contribute to the site (difficult for you and I.) Maybe grab answers from other sites for questions here. This will work, if you pick good answers you will get votes. Be sure to credit your sources, it is very important. How else are you ever going to gain enough credit to get back on with your limited experience?

MY EXPERIENCE:

In my own case I asked a total of four questions, one of which was kind of dumb. I asked very clear questions that sadly did not require sample code. There were two that require expertise. Yes, they were programming related. Instead of getting just answers from someone that knows the specific issue or has the same problem, I got voted down from people that don't, or so it seemed. The fault is entirely mine for not understanding the site, in your case, as a coding newbie, it is unfair. The site doesn't want to exclude new programmers, it is policy issue evolving around Q&A type site standards and not wasting too much time where the answer people are concerned.

Ignore negative votes on this answer or discussion among the experts on other posts. They are not in your position of being new and having already made too many mistakes. Trust me on this...

1) There is also naturally a difference between the stated and debated guidelines for questions and what actually occurs on the site that has to do with psychology.
2) Remember that you might not only get negative votes for questions that have no clear answer, but also for questions where the answer is unknown (to the reader), 3) or it annoys the reader on some level. Its not malicious, its just human nature.
4) Someone else will probably come to your defense if that happens, but that won't help you.

CLEAR ADVICE FOR THE FUTURE:

This is not a rant, listen carefully... Yes, read their page about what question to ask and how. Your in trouble, so read everything you can find. Read a variety of questions and answers to get a feel for things. Beyond that:

5) Only ask about bugs or language features.
6) When you do, provide examples or ALL the code.
7) Before posting, research the issue and provide details.
8) If the answer really isn't here already, get you answer somewhere else more tolerant until you have some points.
9) If the answer doesn't involve someone pointing to a bug in your code, don't ask at all.

Remember, you start with no points, you can get blocked very easily, and negative votes aren't necessarily tied to the rules an guidelines. Remember down votes can be about any flaw in your question. The site members likely do not want to block you, they probably do not know they are.

AS YOUR SKILLS ADVANCE A BIT:

If you are about to be blocked, this is not a site for getting expert answers to complex programming problems.

1) This is a site where EXPERTS mainly address simple coding problems. That is not really true, but is true where down votes are concerned.
2) Even then, never ask a question that is too advanced even if it is specific and clearly stated, especially if it COULD evoke discussion. You might not know when you are making a mistake.
3) If your question could in any way be interpreted as asking for a list or a poll, do not ask. For example, avoid expressions like "Has anyone had this problem?" You might be asking if something is a bug or not but that be considered doing a poll.

4) Perhaps your questions are being marked duplicate.
i) Reread the guidelines,
ii) Do not just use the list of existing answers that appears when you type the title to your question. The answer is probably somewhere, go to the search page.
iii) However, there are many issues with the search page and you need to use it right to first narrow the list of available answers.

Although a work in progress, there is a work around to avoid the search page issues, see I'm having problems finding answers and my posts are getting marked duplicate, what do I do? Bugs in the search page can cause you to not find an answer, resulting in down votes.

CONCLUSION:

This sounds like quite a slam of Stack Overflow but it's not really. It would be trivial were it not for the automatic blocking mechanism. I do appreciate the help I've gotten and like the site but there are lots of other good sites out there. Did you look for your answer in other sites before asking here?

(edit) Very reluctantly, I would have to say your best option is to create a different account even with a different email and hope the two accounts are not merged later. Warning, this might NOT be allowed, I've seen conflicting advice on the site. Do not "sock puppet" (Up vote your other account) as this will really harm your reputation when you are eventually discovered. You are allowed to add an account, usually for security reasons. Your legitimate, right? Nothing malicious or illegal, correct? If you get blocked again then the problem is probably on your end. If you just want to ask a question there is little harm.(end edit)

Otherwise, come here when you see the answer in Google and posted it (cited), accept you can no longer ask questions here and when you eventually can contribute, if you are truly offended, do that somewhere else. As they say, vote with your feet. You can ask questions anywhere and still use this resource. On the other hand, we all get lots of help along the way, so rather than blaming the site users for an automated blocking mechanism, take it in stride and contribute here also (be mature.) I try to give more than I get if I can.

Update:
This being my first comment on the meta site (now at -2) it will take very little time before I'm blocked from this site too. Again, this is not a rant, it is really sound advice. I.E. not only was I not upset, I've just spent a day contributing the site.

Decide for yourself though, I asked a very straight forward question that could have a very expert level answer:

Does object literal notation result if faster executing code or is it slower?

(I hate saying this) The best answer I got was amounted to find out for yourself at jsperf. Looks like an absolutely great tool, I appreciate that and gave the answer a vote. I was happy to add lots of spurious detail when asked. I did not get an answer (which is perfectly OK.) But the issue is I am getting more and more negative points on top of the original vote downs. Later on, I learned it was a duplicate question I had missed because of the issues on the search page.

By asking two questions that nobody answered, and one dumb one, I'm blocked. I've read two different articles on this site and a few posts like this as well as the help. I have to conclude that at no point did do thing incorrectly, except to keep adding detail. I also phrased the question avoiding the use of technical terms involving scope. Scope is different in compiled and interpreted languages and JavaScript has some complex scope features. This could (fairly) be considered badly worded. So bad (simple) wording, duplicate questions, too little detail, too much detail. Any of these things could result in a down vote. See the point? Your blocked, it matters to you.

Other things that might be at issue:
(I don't mean you specifically but:) You are used to forums, new to Q&A or familiar with neither. You are too verbose. You are mixing two issues in one question. You can't distinguish being detailed from getting into discussion. You are too impatient or maybe rude. You really haven't read all the help. You haven't found or checked out the meta stack overflow site.

So exactly what would your advice be to a new or possibly inexperienced member be? The above is great advice if you are already in trouble. Follow it. If it's bad advice, I'd welcome feedback on the problem with my own four questions. I expect many site users to disagree but... for example, what in this specif post warrants blocking me from asking further questions or making more posts. I gave a newbie the best answer they could get at the top despite it's going against stated guidelines. (-6 and counting)

The point is, you will get repetitive advice about reading the site documentation