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I have had a couple of my questions closed for reasons that I disagree with, so I can sympathise there, but to me it sounds incredible that someone would be ban

by Flimm 11y ago

I have had a couple of my questions closed for reasons that I disagree with, so I can sympathise there, but to me it sounds incredible that someone would be banned just for asking programming questions. You say you think you've been banned, could you check and let us know what actually happened? Did you really get banned?

gravypod 11y ago
Yea it looks like I was banned and it looks like I was banned more then once. I have an @gmail email address, and one at a custom domain I use professionally. I cant login to either. It also seems like I am not the only one: https://np.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/1wpbhv/i_embarrassed_myself_on_stack_overflow_and_i_need/cf461uj https://np.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/1wpbhv/i_e... That was linked in the article. I spent that entire week upset because I felt I did something wrong (this was back when I was like 14, 2 years into programming and still very much an emotional edgy teen). I'm very lucky that I eventually brought it up to a long time IRC friend and programming "mentor" of mine Steve who said that he was also banned. To me this was crazy as I could not understand how he could have been banned. He was, and still is, my last go-to resort for programming help; basically Mister Miyagi. Because of this, I have surmised that to be good at programming, you need to be banned from SOF for asking a perfectly reasonable question. Edit: I was banned when I asked for help with writing a 3D matrix camera with not problems from gimbal lock and another time for asking if there was a datatype for allowing two threads to mutate the same state. Back then, I did not know about locking, concurrency, and all of the cool jazz. I learned most of what I know myself. Thank god google indexes all of the closed SOF posts or I would have never been able to.
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- fabian2k 11y ago
  If you had hit the automatic question block, you would still be able to log in. And if you were manually suspended by a moderator, you also would be able to login. Account deletion is only used for spammers, sock puppets used for vote fraud and for persistent trolls. You can get blocked on SO from asking questions if you ask too many heavily downvoted and/or closed questions without a lot of positive contributions, but accounts aren't deleted just because someone asks a few bad questions.
  - gravypod 11y ago
    >You can get blocked on SO from asking questions if you ask too many heavily downvoted and/or closed questions without a lot of positive contributions, but accounts aren't deleted just because someone asks a few bad questions Yes, that was it. I asked two questions, and was banned for it.
    - Flimm 11y ago
      Here's what SE has to say about auto-blocking: http://stackoverflow.com/help/question-bans http://stackoverflow.com/help/question-bans > ... The exact formula for the bans is not disclosed, but users are only banned if they have a significant number of heavily down-voted, zero-voted, or deleted posts. One or two bad posts will not cause you to be blocked from using the site. So what happened is definitely against current SO policy and auto-banning rules. If you want to share the question URLs and your SO user id to help sort out what happened, I'd be happy to assist, I can see deleted posts, I'm a fan of SO and I would raise a ruckus if I had proof that new users were banned after asking two programming questions.
      - gravypod 11y ago
        I can't find those questions and I don't much remember the account name, this was over 5 years ago, and even then it was my first account. So I don't really know.

by Flimm 11y ago

gravypod 11y ago

Yea it looks like I was banned and it looks like I was banned more then once. I have an @gmail email address, and one at a custom domain I use professionally. I cant login to either. It also seems like I am not the only one: https://np.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/1wpbhv/i_embarrassed_myself_on_stack_overflow_and_i_need/cf461uj https://np.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/1wpbhv/i_e... That was linked in the article. I spent that entire week upset because I felt I did something wrong (this was back when I was like 14, 2 years into programming and still very much an emotional edgy teen). I'm very lucky that I eventually brought it up to a long time IRC friend and programming "mentor" of mine Steve who said that he was also banned. To me this was crazy as I could not understand how he could have been banned. He was, and still is, my last go-to resort for programming help; basically Mister Miyagi. Because of this, I have surmised that to be good at programming, you need to be banned from SOF for asking a perfectly reasonable question. Edit: I was banned when I asked for help with writing a 3D matrix camera with not problems from gimbal lock and another time for asking if there was a datatype for allowing two threads to mutate the same state. Back then, I did not know about locking, concurrency, and all of the cool jazz. I learned most of what I know myself. Thank god google indexes all of the closed SOF posts or I would have never been able to.

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fabian2k 11y ago
If you had hit the automatic question block, you would still be able to log in. And if you were manually suspended by a moderator, you also would be able to login. Account deletion is only used for spammers, sock puppets used for vote fraud and for persistent trolls. You can get blocked on SO from asking questions if you ask too many heavily downvoted and/or closed questions without a lot of positive contributions, but accounts aren't deleted just because someone asks a few bad questions.
- gravypod 11y ago
  >You can get blocked on SO from asking questions if you ask too many heavily downvoted and/or closed questions without a lot of positive contributions, but accounts aren't deleted just because someone asks a few bad questions Yes, that was it. I asked two questions, and was banned for it.
  - Flimm 11y ago
    Here's what SE has to say about auto-blocking: http://stackoverflow.com/help/question-bans http://stackoverflow.com/help/question-bans > ... The exact formula for the bans is not disclosed, but users are only banned if they have a significant number of heavily down-voted, zero-voted, or deleted posts. One or two bad posts will not cause you to be blocked from using the site. So what happened is definitely against current SO policy and auto-banning rules. If you want to share the question URLs and your SO user id to help sort out what happened, I'd be happy to assist, I can see deleted posts, I'm a fan of SO and I would raise a ruckus if I had proof that new users were banned after asking two programming questions.
    - gravypod 11y ago
      I can't find those questions and I don't much remember the account name, this was over 5 years ago, and even then it was my first account. So I don't really know.