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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 log
by 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 agoHere'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 agoI 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.