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I randomly see [Meta] Stack Overflow is currently offline for maintenance pages every once in a while, and they usually go away in like 30 seconds.

Am I errorbanned or something? Or is there really random "routine" maintenance on Stack Overflow that lasts < 30s?

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  • I'm fairly sure Jeff dissaproves of hell-banning and error-banning users, but if they were to do it I doubt they'd make it common knowledge
    – Mark Henderson
    Commented Jun 8, 2011 at 3:49
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    Yes you are. I am too. So is he. Ice cream? Ohhh Kay.
    – Anthony Pegram
    Commented Jun 8, 2011 at 3:49
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    +1, everytime I see "An error occurred" when voting I wonder whether it is this :D
    – davidsleeps
    Commented Jun 8, 2011 at 3:52
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    I propose that the next time someone asks a question about hellbanning, nobody answer :)
    – Benjol
    Commented Jun 8, 2011 at 8:05

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NO NO NO .... we do not error ban anyone.

What you are seeing is artifacts of a meta deploy, we have a system for continuous deployment on SO and SE sites, but deploys to meta unfortunately still involve a minor outage.

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  • Oh lol okay, just checking, thanks. :)
    – user541686
    Commented Jun 8, 2011 at 3:51
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    You would say that, wouldn't you? ;)
    – Andrew Grimm
    Commented Jun 8, 2011 at 12:43
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Typically the M/SO/SE sites flicker off due to a new build deploying. Most of the times it is fairly quick although you may get the "Offline" message.

If you look in the bottom right conder under the cc-wiki logo you'll see the build number, currently rev 2011.6.8.4 (date, then probably 4th build today).

Error banning is fairly harsh and evil and I don't think SE would stoop to using it.

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