Questions tagged [banning]

I found a user that is suspended for 100 years and wondered: why do you do this? Can't you "deactivate" a user if you decide to doom them forever? A quick search of "100 years" ...

Why was the link to the policy banning AI-generated content1 removed from the right-hand sidebar? It's not like the problem has abated. The link was there as late as last week, but now it's gone. 1 It ...

If you are question banned, rate limited to 1 question per 6 months, and then you delete and recreate your account, you will be limited 1 question per week. This is by design because otherwise they ...

I have seen from various comments and in the rules of Stack Overflow that moderators cannot remove question or answer bans, no matter what. How does the deciding who/for how long to ban and unbanning ...

Recently Stack Exchange announced a new network-wide policy regarding AI-generated content: What is the network policy regarding AI Generated content? In short: moderators are prohibited from banning ...

In December I failed a Suggested Edits audit again. Since I did it before, I was banned until mid-January from reviewing. Now I wanted to check the exact end-of-ban-date in January and saw that the ...

Today I encountered a user who has asked two questions, the second of which was deleted. The second question was a code dump of obfuscated Python code with a vague debugging request. After the fact, I ...

People like me-they don't ask good questions. They never will until they have asked a ton of questions. I think you should remove the question bans permanently for all users. You could add some sort ...

I am having difficulties asking questions because of the bans, but I understand why they're there. However, when I look through all the questions getting posted, a scarce few of them seem to get ...

I could not find any information on what kind of account suspensions you can face. What kind of suspensions are there? What is the worst suspension a user can face other than banning them indefinitely?...

I have been blocked because I have deleted too many questions in a cleaning up attempt. Apparently, one gets another chance after 6 months. However, as far as I know more than 6 months have passed, ...

Today I tried (and failed) to login with the correct info (I had skipped a some characters) and it showed me this page: Where I had to tick a capcha box. My questions is, could this result in a ban?

I got review-banned a few weeks ago, but I continued to edit, vote on, comment on, and flag posts during the ban. AFAICT a review-ban indicates that you can't tell the difference between high-quality ...

Why don't correct audits balance out failed audits in the review ban evaluation algorithm? A user can fail 3 audits, get banned for 2 days, pass 100 audits, fail 1 audit within 30 days of the last ...

On the Meta question Does Stack Exchange really want to conflate newbies with women/people of color?, a user posted an answer that heavily criticized the recent blog post. He was temporarily banned a ...