I always thought question/answer bans were present on Stack Overflow (and maybe in all the trilogy sites). I was recently chatting with a user, and he said there are answer bans on other sites as well.  Are question/answer bans present in other sites, outside the trilogy ones? I mean, are they present in all the Stack Exchange 2.0 sites, or are they enabled in those sites that need post-bans because low quality contributions (or other reasons)?
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Questions are the lifeblood of any Stack Exchange site. But asking good questions can be difficult, and while most people start off doing it poorly, some never get better. For years now, when sites reached traffic levels that made manual review and filtering of questions burdensome for the good folks answering them, we've enabled systems to :  We believe asking questions on our site is a privilege, not a right. If, after a few fair attempts, you haven’t been able to prove that your contributions to Stack Overflow make it at least … not-worse … then we reserve the right to refuse your questions. If we don’t do our part to cull the bad questions, then we risk alienating the true experts who provide what really matters: the answers!  Prior to today, these &quot;comprehensive&quot; checks have been enabled on only 8 sites. After much discussion and soul-searching, we've decided to enable them everywhere. Users who encounter this block are directed to , which explains what that person must do to lift the block. Moderators have access to information on whether or not a given user would be blocked if they try to ask, as well as whether or not they've previously encountered the block, for those cases where it is desirable to provide one-on-one support. What you can do to help Quality blocks are based on each community's rating of questions and answers, therefore the most useful things you can do are:   if you see a great, thoughtfully asked, well researched question, vote it up — please! Great questions are an art! if you see an egregiously sloppy, no-effort-expended question that you feel was asked in bad faith … vote it down. anything in between that’s salvageable, edit it!   Don't worry about the exact details of the algorithm used for blocking - in general, it's fairly conservative as far as who or what gets blocked. On the majority of sites, this will affect few if any users in the near future. Most users will encounter  and  long before they encounter this block. As always, vote your conscience and encourage new members to participate constructively. Feel free to post questions or concerns here. If you encounter problems specific to a given site, please post on that site's meta. If you encounter this block and want it lifted, read the instructions linked to in the block message.
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I have never posted on the  yet.  I just wrote my first question, but when I click "Post Your Question", I get "You can only post once every 40 minutes."  I haven't posted any question today on any Stack Exchange site.  I tried to report this on the , but I got the same issue.  Let's try here...
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A user asks a question. It gets downvoted.(to oblivion) And then gets deleted by a mod.     This question should then be accessible to the user in the "deleted recent questions" link but this doesn't happen.    If a user has asked only one question (which gets deleted) then this link goes missing. Only after asking another question (which must not get deleted), is the user able to see that link.     Is this a bug or a new-user-restriction?
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I have a situation where different users have asked questions and I answered them. The problem is not that they haven't accepted the answer which can tell me that it is correct or not. But they are actually not responsive and it seems to me that answer is being ignored. Or they asked the question just for the sake of asking.  See -the user was last seen yesterday, the same day it was answered.  -the user was last seen today.   which is also upvoted by a fellow user, but the OP is seen till days after it was answered and is not even commenting.  I went through a lot of question on meta on similar situation such as  where Anna says that it is completely voluntary for users to accept it.   But then again, I believe it is becoming a fashion, to ask a question read the answer as a suggestion and leave it.  It is discouraging me. I am not saying that my answers or suggestions are 100 percent working but I atleast need be told so I can improve it. And more importantly I am not the only one facing this.  Please advise.  EDIT : Well, I got a lot of suggestions from the answers and comments combined below and I have to say that I agree with what Cody Gray has to say and just keep on answering the questions, the returns(good or bad) may be now,later or never and just move on. However, in my own defence I would also say that I did not raised this question to pin point any user but a bad practice that I find worthy of discussing. Thanks.
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NB: I'm not sure if this is actually a bug, or if I just don't know enough about what constitutes a new user. It just seems off to me.  The first post in question:   :   In the context of reviews, is a new user just someone who has never posted an answer no matter their age or rep?  Also: How is it possible for a user to have -1 other answers? Could this be related?
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I and my friend used to ask programming questions on Stack Overflow, until we saw that 90% of our questions have at least 1 downvote and nobody cares to explain or at least give a clue why.  For example:        And many more on Super User... (can't see up/down count there)   It seems to me like you're allowing this kind if mingebag-ish behavior on purpose. Is it fun to click on a good question's vote count and see like +5/-3? Does it seem right to you?   It definitely doesn't seem right to me or my friend, who quit this website because of this.  Don't you think this must be stopped, possibly now?  You know, my problem here is that, when a question gets a downvote first (has overall negative reputation), it ceases to get views and thus less chances to get an answer. I came to stack overflow to get answers on my questions, not to have their quality or reason questioned.
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If a citizen of EU would request all his questions and answers to be deleted from all Stack Exchange sites, would that request be carried out?  I'm not just talking about account deletion, where questions and answers by the user are being anonymized. I'm talking about the case where the user demands all his questions and answered be deleted.  Would Stack Exchange be doing something illegal if they refused the request?
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A user may not post a  link if the user doesn't also post some code with it.  I recently learned that .  Why isn't this ban in place with all the other sites similar to JS/PHPFiddle, like , , , ,  etc.?
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I posted a comment on the . My comment was:  You will have to work on your [accept rate](http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5234/how-does-accepting-an-answer-work). Currently it's catastrophic. Zero as in a singularity inside a black hole.  This comment was deleted by someone. I would like to know if showing users that don't know how to accept answers is considered as a bad thing so that I stop doing it or if not why would my comment have been deleted and do only moderators are InRole to delete comments.
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I was wondering what kind of restrictions there are, if any, for code posted on StackOverflow?  In other words, I'm hoping StackOverflow has a clause that makes any posted code completely free of restrictions for reuse? (Both questions and answers).
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This is something I have faced quite recently. Someone very new to Stack Overflow asked a question, but is not able to communicate properly or exactly understand the answers that has been given for his question. He normally clarifies that in comments. But sometimes, it is necessary to have a one-to-one conversation with the one who has given the answer, so that the comments section is not populated with some trivial comments. So, I just felt that it'd be great if the reputation limit for talking in chat is removed.
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Somewhere I heard the automatic question ban on Meta is set lower than on the main site. But looking at the profile of  it looks like there is absolutely no automatic ban on meta.  Is this intended behaviour?
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I recently posted an "answer" to a self-asked and answered question with basically no votes. I was hoping to ask the poster a specific question about his code, but a moderator deleted it basically saying that it wasn't an answer and I should follow the rules.   This happened to me twice now, except the first time I wasn't deleted, just down-voted into oblivion. How am I supposed to ask questions and participate to earn reputation if I don't have any reputation to ask questions/participate within the guidelines? I came very close to 50 reputation points and then people went through and voted down my discussions with the OP.  This is almost akin to the "you can't get a job without experience" conundrum, and I feel an easy solution would be to lower the amount of reputation points required to comment on posts. It's ridiculous that this community is so hostile to someone who is only trying to contribute instead of just taking without giving back.  EDIT: Thanks, to whomever went through and voted up enough things to get me to 50 reputation points!
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Due to its massive (and growing) size, there are a lot of low-quality questions and answers appearing on Stack Overflow.  I'm concerned that an influx of low-quality questions and answers create a lot of work for our users and moderators and can potentially damage our expert Q&amp;A ecosystem.  Is there some way we can prevent these low-quality questions and answers from appearing on the site?   So:    What current processes are used to block these low-quality questions and answers? If the current processes are inadequate, how can they be improved?
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they were question banned; it turned out it (in part) it was because of deleted questions.   was deleted by the Community user.  I'm aware it will delete old posts that have a negative score, but for a minute or two, I was really puzzled as to why it was unilaterally deleted without some notation left.  Can we have the Community user leave a notation in a post's history as to why the post was deleted?    Something like the following would suffice:     Post deleted automatically due to having negative votes and no activity for three months
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Have a look at these Stack Overflow questions,  and . Doesn't it fall under the following flag category?     Questions asking for code must demonstrate a minimal understanding of the problem being solved. Include attempted solutions, why they didn't work, and the expected results.   And yet a user having access to moderator tools is answering the question instead of putting it on hold or raising a flag.  So, is it the time to rethink about how moderation privileges should be granted? Or some kind of flagging mechanism should be introduced for users belonging to 10K+ reputation category?  Have a look at . What's wrong with it?   Reading all the answers and comments, Stack&nbsp;Overflow seems to be following double standards. Rules are there, but not for everyone. It's totally on luck that either your not-so-good question will be accepted by the community or not.   for example.
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Allow converting comments to answers, so they can become accepted answers.  I asked a question. Someone commented on it, and it was an awesome comment that fully answered the question. As the original questioner, I would like to convert that comment to an answer in order to accept it.  Or, if you prefer, I would be okay with being able to simply mark the comment as accepted.