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>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 acco
by 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.