We have a user on Ask Ubuntu who [just received][1] the "do better or we won't let you play" nastygram, while writing a new question. I understand the point of this feature is to stop people flooding a site with bad questions, but this user has a good (albeit brief) record.

 - 2 purely positively voted questions, one closed as duplicate.
 - 2 questions that were [auto-deleted][2] by the Community user because they got no votes or answers within a year.

The user hasn't attracted a single negative vote... But we're telling them they're not good enough?

I suspect their community-deletions and the dupe are counting against them but I don't think they should. Dupes happen, especially on technical sites and unanswered, unvoted questions are just as much a failure of the site as their askers.

In short: A question shouldn't count against a user unless it also has a negative score.

It'd also be nice for moderators to be able to countermand any automatic blocks. I feel helpless when users come into chat begging to be allowed to try asking another question but the system won't let them. This user in particular has done nothing wrong but this is far from an isolated case.

Please fix.


  [1]: http://meta.askubuntu.com/questions/14066/how-to-become-more-well-received
  [2]: http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/78048/144180