StackOverflow is no longer accepting questions from my account. It happened after I posted a question asking for comparison between PHP and C#. The question was deleted and my account banned. OK, I get it. Maybe, that makes me a help vampire. I got downvoted like anything. It should have deleted it before SO did that.  Now  says the ban might be uplifted by writing a few quality answers that get upvoted. Since then, I have posted many answer some of them were also accepted and my reputation has increased by 200 or so. But still it won't accept my questions.  Does anyone have any idea how far I need to work up so that I can get this ban uplifted. They say a few answers... But that doesn't seem to work.
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If you are reading this, you may have been affected by one of our post quality bans. If so, it is important that you  to understand what has happened and how to regain the permissions that you lost. While trying to ask a question, one could see:  We are no longer accepting questions from this account. See  to learn more.  Likewise, for answers:  We are no longer accepting answers from this account. See  to learn more.   Why am I getting this message? Are deleted posts taken into account too? Is a question/answer ban the same as a suspension? How do I avoid getting a question ban? How long do I have to wait before I can post again? What can I do to release the ban? How can I reactivate my account? Can I simply create a new account? I'll just ask somewhere else on the SE network, and they'll migrate my question to the correct site! Will a ban on one Stack Exchange site affect my standing on other sites in the network? Does this apply to meta sites too? My account is in good standing. Why am I still blocked?
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I asked a question on Stack Overflow: . I want to award my bounty to  by user  However, my Stack Overflow account is suspended recently for 7 days, and the suspension still has 5 more days to end.And I know I can't vote, ask, answer or comment as pointed on  by  with the sentence below.  You will be unable to vote, ask, answer, or comment.  I couldn't find anything about not being able to accept an answer or award bounty so I tried to accept the mentioned answer above and award my bounty to it and I got a  Suspended users cannot vote  rejection which can be seen below with a screenshot.  I know this  If you do not award your bounty within 7 days, the highest voted answer created after the bounty started with at least 2 upvotes will be awarded half the bounty amount.  from . None of the answer given to my question is upvoted and the answer I mentioned is not the oldest one after the bounty started so it won't be awarded by community. What can I do? (except being a good guy and not get suspended :))
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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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I recently got automatically flag-banned on my Worldbuilding account. When I regained the ability to flag, I flagged another post that I had intended to flag but been unable to because of the ban. That flag was within 24 hours of the ban being lifted, probably within the hour because I was on the site at the time and happened to notice. The flag was accepted as helpful, but the system promptly banned me once again. Now that the ban has once again ended, I am hesitant to flag anything. Will I get banned once again? If so, how long do I have to wait?  I don't have anything specific in mind to flag, but it would help to know whether to leave anything I see as needing flagging to someone else so that I don't get banned again. Getting banned would be a lot less helpful than skipping one post and being able to flag more than one post later on.  The majority of my flags have been helpful, with almost all of the declined ones for off-topic or moderator attention. I do not try to spam the review queues and my flags are well intentioned and usually helpful. I am fairly sure that both bans were because of the system because I flagged more posts than normal in a short amount of time.  Here is a screenshot of my recent flag history. This is not a complete list. To the right, you will see my flag count: 13 post flags, 8 helpful, 5 declined; 3 comment flags, all 3 helpful.    Recently declined flags:
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My reputation rating on SO took this hit an hour ago, and it is due to what appears to be the simultaneous deletion of multiple questions.  I am uncertain why it happened, am concerned, and would appreciate an explanation.  Going to  shows that it was removed due to moderation.  Was a script run deliberately, or were we hit with a question deletion attack; what happened?  -12     today -2  1 hour ago  removed     How to send a 2d Vector over UDP in c++ -2  1 hour ago  removed     How do I use the Eclipse debugger to debug a Java application? -2  1 hour ago  removed     PHP string error; inconsistency with local and server -2  1 hour ago  removed     Unable to start the MySQL service after a server migration -2  1 hour ago  removed     How to use Java to print a text file on a ticket printer? -2  1 hour ago  removed     How can all of the ZBrush Obj files be imported to make a complete model?
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I am regular Stack Exchange user, especially at Stack Overflow.  One of the things I really dislike about new and sometimes veteran users is that:   Either they do not accept an answer that works for them, Or they accept the answer but do not vote it up   I mean they can really both accept the answer and vote it up but somehow they wouldn't =(.  How many of you feel the same way?
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I wonder how it is possible that Stack Overflow is still asking me to solve an unreadable  before I can post a question when I have more than five accounts on Stack Exchange, and I have more than 500 reputation on Stack Overflow.
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A user on Stack Overflow was recently temporarily suspended.  Out of curiosity I read through their posts (both questions and answers) and found them to be of decent quality.  They answer far more than they ask (about a 10 to 1 ratio) and always provides lots of sample code in their replies.  They're polite too.  I can't see a reason for suspension.  So, now I'm curious, and maybe I can even learn something from their experience.  Can I find out why they were suspended or is that strictly between the moderator and the user?
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I want my question to be deleted permanently from Stack Overflow for some reasons. I have deleted the question, but when searching in Google, it is still showing up. I don't have a reputation over 10,000 to delete. But I want it to be deleted from my account. Can anybody help me on this?
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I have been on Stack Overflow for some time.  It is an AMAZING resource and don't know if I would've got through the past 18 months without it.  I love it!  Problem is that I have "1" reputation.  All of my questions have already been asked and answered.  My "new user restrictions" mean: - I can't vote up answers that were helpful. - I can't comment on answers.  I sometimes have a question to ask one of the users that answered someone else's question but I can't.  This is hard!  How do I get a break?  Do I have to troll for a couple of days/weeks/months to answer enough questions in the hope someone votes some of them up just so I can do some basic functions?  Perhaps the number of site visits and length of membership could count for something?
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I asked a question and mistakenly created an unregistered user. Now I'm unable to access the question and respond to people answering it.  I have created a stack exchange user - how can I gain access to the unregistered account, and preferably move the question to my stack exchange user?
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What are the most downvoted questions and answers on Stack Overflow, Server Fault, Meta, and Super User history to date?  Similarly, what are the most upvoted questions and answers on SO, SF, Meta, and SU to date?
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appears to have been question banned because of two unpopular Meta suggestions. (He says so in )  Look at the two contributions that appear to have gotten him banned. Like those of many others, they may not be of perfect quality, but they are not actively harmful to the site, either. As it stands, you can get question blocked on Meta simply for asking questions that aren't popular with the Meta crowd.  Why does the team insist on keeping the question ban active on Meta?  Why can't real problem users be dealt with through manual moderator action? Don't tell me it's a problem of scale; as far as I can see, actually toxic users are very rare on Meta.  People will frequently complain that Meta actively discourages the expression of unpopular viewpoints and suggestions. With the threat of question bans in place, I find those complaints difficult to refute. I hate that.
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Please have a look at . When the question was asked by the OP, it had a scope related problem in the code snippet posted in it. 2 answers were posted for that question. But after the answers were posted, a friend of mine from Stack Overflow, edited the question(not sure with what intention) in such a way that the bug in the code was gone(it actually self answered the question). Please have a look at the question revision history, where I've rolled back the question to the original state, which has the problem in place.  My question is that, should such a practice be allowed/encouraged that an edit to a question renders all the answers posted for that question, totally irrelevant? As anybody who comes to have a look at the question later, will be highly confused as to why a question was asked without any problem and there were so many answers posted to it(not everybody cares to go through the revision history)? I happened to notice that, but not everybody would notice it.
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Lot of people have posted these kind of questions, but mine deals with another perspective of the same problem, so before you cry out duplicate! just hear me out.  I'm a pretty new user on Stack Overflow, and a rookie in the world of Javascript and Jquery.  So I wanted to make something clear...  So I asked some questions based on my knowledge, and what I do not understand, while other more experienced users kept pounding me down and down-voting me.  Well, in my understanding, Stack Overflow was made with the aim that anyone can ask, and anyone can answer.  Old users constantly say This is a duplicate! or Why didn't you check the FAQ!. Now let me ask you something, Will a new user go through all of the Stack Overflow just to see whether it is acceptable to you or not?  OR does he even know that we have a FAQ?  Seriously guys, if you think that a person's question are a waste of time, why do you take the time to down-vote him??  Old users should understand that we are just wanting to get an answer, and not try intimidate us. Give us some space!   I mean seriously, after getting bullied again and again , you think anyone would want to stay on longer?  I agree some new users are just there for spamming, but hey, not all of us are like that!   Just give us some breathing room, and come on, it isn't that hard to be nice to someone.
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Recently I just deleted one of my answer in stackoverflow where there was one comment. After deleting the answer it also show for sometime that we all know but in the comment it still allow us to up to make it useful but as I clicked it it just showed me the message:  If we are not allowed to do then what was the meaning? Why don't it just be removed or make it disable if the answer is deleted. Just don't show UI for actions that can't be actioned
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One of my questions got closed, as it was very similar to some other posted questions (though I don't feel the linked questions answered what I was trying to ask).  There's no point to the question staying online, as it doesn't answer anything, so I was going to delete it - but if I do that will it remove the reputation of the helpful answerers I want to upvote?