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A post ban means that a user is blocked from asking new questions, or posting new answers.

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Don't make it look like I'm question or answer banned while I'm actually suspended [duplicate]

When you are suspended and attempt to ask or answer a question, you are given the Question/Answer banned popup (screenshot of the question popup below): Similarly, for answers, the message is telling ...
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2 answers
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Is the automatic banning algorithm working correctly? [duplicate]

I just got the message "you've earned the popular question badge" simultaneously It looks like you might need a break - take a breather and come back soon! You've asked 8 questions ...
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Futility of keeping the rules around the question ban secret

The community wiki What can I do when getting "We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account"? says: To avoid bypassing the filter, its internal rules are a secret, but it ...
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Are questions migrated to other sites included when calculating a question ban?

If a user gets question banned after asking a new question but that question then gets migrated to another site, is the question still taken into account when calculating whether the user has a ...
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Should migrations continue to be allowed if the author is question-banned but their 6-month rate has opened up, or should they be blocked?

This is a follow-up to my prior question Are migrations allowed if the user is banned on the destination site, but their 6-month limit has opened up?. For context, users who are banned from asking ...
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Votes on rejected migration on destination site should not contribute positively or negatively to post ban calculation on the destination site

A moderator on one site requests migration and the post comes to the destination site. The destination site rejects the migration, but in the process, the migrated question received plenty of votes in ...
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