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Comprehensive question quality blocks now enabled everywhere
Do you have any numbers available for us as to how the ban is beneficial on other sites? I'm worried that politically motivated downvoting may cause question blocks on politics.SE.
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Flawed question-ban system
It's because you have two more questions that have been deleted that also have scores of less than zero.
Deleted questions contribute to the automatic question ban. If they didn't then users could ...
ChrisFMod
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Does deleting your profile and starting a new one violate any rules?
Yes, it violates the rules. As was pointed out in the comments, you've been told this before, right here on Meta.SE.
It confused me on Aviation.SE when I saw the New User flag on your name, since I ...
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Rethinking when to block users from posting questions
In your case, most of your downvotes came on two questions - both were very much open-ended and not well-suited to this platform... but, in general, your remaining questions have not been poorly ...
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Allow banned users to see their own deleted posts
There is a slightly convoluted workaround for finding most of your deleted posts, which doesn't require the 10,000 reputation necessary for using the deleted:1 search operator (of course, those users ...
GlorfindelMod
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Is it time to stop taking restrictive actions based on the user's IPv4 address?
First, thank you for your well-researched, well-reasoned initiation for this discussion.
I agree that IPv4 is not particularly reliable as a way to identify a person; at best it's akin to guessing ...
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Does the SE network have an effective process in place to deal with aggressively toxic users?
So, I do not moderate on Stack Overflow, but rather Code Golf, and I will offer a bit of insight. Maybe I'm allowed to share more, but this is just what I think I'm reasonably comfortable publicly ...
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Comprehensive question quality blocks now enabled everywhere
Do you plan to study and possibly use cross-site correlation of the quality blocks / warnings?
I mean whether bumping into the quality block at one site has a noticeable / substantial impact on ...
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Does the recent question reputation change affect question bans?
No, it doesn't. While the blocks are partly based on voting, it is based on the votes themselves - the amount of reputation gained/lost has no effect on how the block operates.
However, gaining a ...
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Does deleting your profile and starting a new one violate any rules?
You've asked this before, and justify the circumvention as, "It's too harsh", or, "I can never work my way out of the ban". The question ban is not a glitch. It was never a glitch. It's supposed to ...
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Can the Community Team lift a post ban?
No, there is no manual bypass for the question block, even for staff.
However, there are some minor things we can do to help the automated system realize its mistake. Obviously we can't disclose much ...
- 190k
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My new account is brand new and I can't submit answers
Your account isn't as brand new as you remember. On September 5th, you posted 5 answers that are little more than a link to another site. Those were downvoted and deleted. That is why you are blocked ...
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Post ban warning not showing up
This will be fixed in the next build.
This was a missed requirement when we built the new question asking form. The input element that records it was shown was left in but the message was never ...
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How can I make a new account when I am question banned?
As others have suggested in the comments, you have bumped up against an automatic block of new questions from your account. Your account has been blocked because of the ten questions you have posted, ...
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Do you think banning for people not upvoting your question should be a thing?
Do you think banning for people not upvoting your question should be a thing?
No, that's a bad idea, and it's also a misrepresentation of how the system works.
A question with no up- or downvotes is ...
GlorfindelMod
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Does the SE network have an effective process in place to deal with aggressively toxic users?
There's a pretty consistent fact about dealing with trolls...almost all trolls eventually get bored and leave. The amount of effort required to continually evade bans only for their posts to be ...
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Can I regain question asking privilege by editing posts
It seems like what you're really trying to ask is whether gaining reputation can shorten a question ban. If so, my answer to a similar question on Meta Stack Overflow may be relevant here.
TL;DR: ...
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Shared IP Answer Ban workarounds?
Your IP has nothing to do with your answer ban. You do have a few deleted answers, but they are from April and August so you can't see them in your profile anymore. I recommend looking at editing this ...
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Question ban algorithm formula
It's intentional because, well some folks are going to to work around it the wrong way if they knew. As a mod? I don't know. I don't want to know.
I have a rough idea that there's certain things ...
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Does deleting your profile and starting a new one violate any rules?
So, here's a really important point - we need to look at the totality of the situation.
If you're creating a new account to try to get out of past issues, that's not really what its meant for. And ...
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Why is it (is it?) important to make it hard for banned users to check their deleted posts for 6 months (as opposed to 60 days)?
Honestly, as a moderator, I don't really see the problem with letting users see their own deleted posts on their profile, with two exceptions.
I'd love to have spam/abusive posts hidden on profiles, ...
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Flawed question-ban system
The only major flaw in ban system is that you cannot see all your deleted questions.
That creates several problems
Users don't see their low scored deleted questions and their perception of the ban ...
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Does an answer ban allow you to post an answer once every 6 months? Can we make this more clear?
That rule does not apply to answer blocks. We never bothered to implement it for answers because it is extremely easy to get out of an answer block.
I've updated that paragraph of the MSE FAQ with ...
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Evading question ban by triggering the automatic merger of accounts
This is clear sock-puppet abuse under SE policy.
For an official answer, in the FAQ on when sock-puppets are problematic, Shog9 gives this as an example of abuse:
Circumventing suspensions, quality ...
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Do post-bans work the same way on all per-site metas?
Some information based on current site settings:
So my question is, what's the actual situation currently?
The quality blocks (both question and answer blocks) are enabled on all sites, including ...
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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?
The system determines at the time of opening the question form or attempted migration if a user is quality banned or not based on their past contributions. It is a simple yes/no outcome for the system....
reneMod
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Can I regain question asking privilege by editing posts
In my time as a mod, I've only really seen a handful of people who've gotten out of a question ban.
The first step is really to understand what's wrong with your questions. Like really, even if you ...
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My questions keep getting closed; how do I improve?
It's worth remembering that folks have a certain amount of experience before they can close and there are multiple levels of review before something gets closed. It's worth taking a look for yourself ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible