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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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How should self-deletes be evaluated in the question ban algorithm?

A self-deleted post is often not a low-quality post and may simply be a mistake noticed by the user, unlike moderator- or community-deleted posts which may indicate serious problems that the user may …
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Please assume good faith whenever reasonable when dealing with post-banned users

I suppose that I am basing my assumptions on incomplete data. A certain level of competence is always expected, whether on Wikipedia or on Stack Exchange. While I still strongly believe that newcome …
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5 votes

Make users pass a review assessment as final stage before question ban

I feel this should be a supplement to my earlier feature request. I can see this assessment being shown if the user has less than 50 (or 75 or 100) reputation and at least 2 of the 4 previous questio …
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-2 votes
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Please assume good faith whenever reasonable when dealing with post-banned users

Note Please see my answer below. I have incorrectly applied my Wikipedia experience to Stack Exchange and based my assumptions on biased data, and I am deeply sorry for the controversy I have genera …
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How many new answers are needed to lift a question ban?

The post ban algorithm evaluates, among other factors, the number of deleted posts and the total score of your posts. Obviously, the exact details are secret, since we don't want people to abuse the s …
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Moderate, rather than completely block, posts from users who repeatedly post low-quality con...

While post bans help protect the Stack Exchange network from harm caused by repeated low-quality posts, they deny all further opportunity for the user to post questions or answers, even if there is a …
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