Suppose a user is question or answer banned from a certain site. And suppose a question was migrated from another site to the one where the user was banned. And suppose the user's answer from the other site on someone else's question was highly upvoted on the destination site.  Do the upvotes on the user's answer to the migrated question count toward removing a question or answer ban?
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There's a sad little loophole in the suspension/question-block system: migrations.  Example: Let's say you've been suspended on MSO, but you really, really want to post a question here now. All you need to do is:   Go to any other site and ask your question.  Chances are good that a moderator there will automatically migrate it here. If not, request it. Success! Your question is now on MSO.   Can this be fixed? The best approach, imo, is to check if the user already has an account at the destination, and if they do, if they're allowed to post.
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The following scenario happened to a question of mine today:   I asked a question to a topic I'm pretty new to. Someone answered the question, it absolutely satisfied my points, so I upvoted and accepted it.   But a few minutes later he got heavily downvoted because (as I understand it) the way he explained the points were completely wrong and they said his words just show he has no clue about the topic.  So he deleted his answer, which made me sad as I thought it will be lost.  But it wasn't.  His answer is still in the question. It has a weak colour, as an answer has of my own after I deleted it. But why? Is this just to me, as I'm the one who upvoted it? Or is it because at the point he deleted it, it was the accepted answer?  And is this just visible to me?  Or anyone can still see it?  And I also noticed he still has the +2 rep he got left from his answer (after downvoting) so is this really a deleted answer?  What's going on?
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How do I report that a question should be moved to a different site (from stackoverflow.com to superuser.com, in example)?
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When the moderators convert some answers to comments based on flag requests from other users, I think it should also convert no. of upvotes to the corresponding comment votes.  Eg:- If an answer with 5 upvotes and 2 downvotes is converted to a comment, then the comment should get 3 upvotes automatically during conversion.  Since the comments do not have any downvote concept, the answers which get cummulative negative votes can be ignored when they are converted to comments.
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This is related to  question. I think we should discourage "Belongs on S[OFU]" type comments. I think they encourage the OP to go to the indicated site and re-ask the question. Flagging/voting to move on the question should be sufficient. Assuming this is the case, would it be proper to flag those comments for mod removal to hopefully get them removed before a new user sees them and duplicates the question?  Or, another example:    Or, even worse, but this new (!) user probably just doesn't know better:
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just wanted to report a problem with Data Explorer and realized I was banned from asking questions on meta. Probably because I .  Reading through the :   to prevent help vampires users who can't be bothered to form sentences users who don't do the most basic kinds of research themselves users who barely even explain what it is they are trying to do etc., etc. &hellip;   Nothing of this applies to my case. Here on meta, , so I think this should be reflected in the policy for question banning.
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It has happened on occasion, due to the high amount of 10K moderators on SO that questions are migrated to the wrong site, and needs to be reversed. Although currently it is possible to re-open the question on the original site and delete the one on the destination site, it still leave the migrated too banner behind.  It would be useful if diamond moderators could reverse a migration, removing it from the destination site completely and re-activating it on the original site and at the same time removing the banners.  Previously it has been discussed educating the users around when to move questions, however this doesn't stop the problem.  As per Shog9  I have to admit I do like Shog9's suggestion regarding the post being closed as not programming related rather then re-opened, however, reasons for closing it on other sites should also be kept in mind, as this also applies to stuff being sent back forth between the sites.
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I have a question ban on Stack Overflow. I read that I must improve my posts if I want to be unlocked, but I deleted 2 of my questions. How can I see the full list of my removed posts and undelete my questions? I would like to improve them.
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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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Even though I got banned suspended, I'm able to mark a question as a favorite. Is this functionally correct?
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Recently, I have answered a few questions that were upvoted by factors more than the accepted answer, but not accepted. , at the time of my writing, has an accepted answer that the asker said was not what he wanted. I don't know why. In the future, when people view this, people might only look at the accepted answer and move on. Would it be possible to have a "community accepted" feature? Maybe only the people at the top can vote to accept it or something. How much rep, if any, should go to that person?
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I'd like to delete a question of mine that was downvoted and has close votes, so I flagged it and asked for a mod to delete it but they didn't.  Why can it not be deleted?    I can understand that users shouldn't be able to delete questions and answers that may be useful to others but in this case the community has decided it has no value.  Also, following question edits, the answer with upvotes no longer answers it.
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Today my reputation was decreased because of 'User was removed' criteria.   First of all the information provided about this on the reputation page is quite inadequate.   It does not explain, who got removed?(Don't care about this) but I would like to know where my points got deducted on which question and would like some more detailed explanation for all the points awarded or deducted by SO, I always have to go hunting now what does this mean.  Can we have a better messaging system for reputation? The main reason I am writing this question is that found out from what "User was removed" means.      A user who voted for one of your posts had their account deleted   (either by choice or due to violating the network's Terms of Service).   As a result, all of their votes were undone, and the rep you gained   from them (or lost because of them) was revoked.   Some user broke the rules and got himself thrown out.    A user I am not associated with. A user I don't even know who he is. A user I have got nothing to do with.   Why am I getting punished for his acts?
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It is often said that voting on Meta means something different than voting on regular sites. Upvotes mean "I agree", and downvotes mean "I disagree".  However, I submit that this is not the case. Downvoting of a question has one effect in particular: censorship.  Once a question reaches -8 votes, it disappears from the front page. It can still be found; it isn't deleted. But all it takes is a net 8 downvotes for a question to be more or less lost without a direct link.  You might say that a net 8 downvotes obviously means that the community doesn't agree or want that. Well... does it? Particularly on polarizing issues, a question can temporarily get -8 votes as different people come online and see it. Maybe certain people with a certain belief all see it at once and downvote it a lot.  The front page is how most people find stuff they want to talk about, vote on, or answer. Removal from the front page means that most people will not find it without being pointed directly to it. Once a question hits -8, it is unlikely to be upvoted again. Edits will be irrelevant, new answers won't matter. The question is basically exiled.  The problem is that, on polarized topics, fast mass downvoting can quash any idea that is not popular with the most active members. After all, the most active members are the ones who are most likely to be online and see it. If a bunch of MSO regulars see it and downvote it, it goes away. Someone who checks MSO maybe once a day is less likely to be able to catch the question before it is exiled. This gives undue power to members who are most active on MSO, simply because they have more free time to spend on MSO.  I think this is a significant problem for polarized topics. It becomes very difficult to adequately discuss something that a significant number of active members dislike, even if the community at large doesn't mind.  Consider . It currently stands at +9/-8. Initially, in the first few hours, the question was heavily downvoted and even closed. However, after a day, it was upvoted and reopened.  This shows that a question can initially have a negative response, but later get a positive one. And you can check; any edits I did to the question were relatively minor. The question posted as is was initially negative, but ultimately positive.   If that -8 happened to all come first, odds are good that the +9 and the reopen would never have happened. Those 9 people would never have had the chance to weigh in on the subject. And that's wrong.  It is wrong for someone's potential vote to not matter just because they don't visit MSO multiple times in a day. It is wrong for someone's potential vote to not matter just because they have a different sleep schedule from many of MSO's members.  The problem is one of timing. Heavy dislike from active members who quickly see the question and downvote it can kill a question before someone who might upvote it ever even sees it.  I suppose the best suggestion would be to either lower the -8 threshold (or remove it altogether) or keep it from kicking in until 1-2 days has passed. If the question isn't active, it'll already be off the front page. And if it is active, then enough people will have seen it to know if the threshold represents a real consensus or just the fast-acting few.
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TL;DR: Can we do something against comments of the "ask on $othersite" kind?   Every once in a while – probably at least a couple of times a week – we get questions on Super User that were cross-posted from Stack Overflow. The main reason why this happens is:   New user posts off-topic question on Stack Overflow Another user tells them that their question "belongs on superuser" (sic), or that they "should ask on ask ubuntu", et cetera The OP doesn't know that migration votes are already trickling in, and cross-posts their question   Now, what we on Super User have to do is:   Be suspicious for every single question that could have been cross-posted from another site * Check out the user's Stack Overflow profile, and find the original question Add a comment warning others not to migrate the post since it's already been cross-posted Flag the question so it gets deleted on Stack Overflow Reply to the user(s) who told the OP to ask elsewhere that this is not encouraged Hope that they (and others) read it   Want an example? See here:         Not a programming question - better suited to Super User – brettdj Jun 27 at 7:44     Do not migrate this to Super User. The user has already cross posted. – slhck Jun 27 at 11:35   @brettdj In the future, please don't post these kinds of comments. Tell users how a question can be migrated, or just let it be and vote to close. There's really no point in telling them to ask elsewhere. This will only lead to cross-posting and confusion. Thanks. – slhck Jun 27 at 11:36   I am sorry, I am new to this world and hence all the confusion. I usually try reading everything up to avoid all this, but this somehow failed this time! – Maddy Jun 27 at 12:33      It should be noted that this involved a user with 11k reputation, who probably should know better than sending users around and obviously causing confusion.  Here's , and here's  which involves a user with 338,811 reputation. No kidding, 338k. Here's one that went the . Wait… . Here's .    If you are somewhat active on Stack Overflow or other sites where crossposted questions land, then you will know that these are not single incidents — it happens all the time, and it seems some Stack Overflow users, even the high reputation ones, do not know how much moderation overhead they cause with such a simple (and unnecessary) comment.  The main problems I have with these situations are:   High reputation users don't seem to know how the sites work or how much trouble they cause The users who posted the question end up being sorry for their mistake – but how could they have known? They were told to, right?   So, what can we do against that?   * Although we can be thankful that some users explcitly say "A moderator on Stack Overflow told me to ask here" – yes, this really happened. More than once.
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If a post is deleted as spam or offensive, the user incurs a 100-rep penalty.  But SE made the conscious decision to not call that out on the reputation tab; if you go to the page of a user who's hit this penalty, you won't see those &quot;-100&quot; events in the history.  The big rep number on the profile will be correct (which is important for knowing about privileges), so you'd only notice the difference if you went through the history and added everything up -- probably not something that happens often. So these rep penalties would be invisible to most viewers, but for one thing:  (You'll need to get your own test case to verify this behavior; I'm not going to call out specific users.) How is the current rep both 404 and a smidge over 500 at the same time?  There's only one way I know for that to happen (and I know it happened here). You might think that, theoretically, answers that the user downvoted could account for the difference, because those too are not shown in rep history. But the -1 rep for downvoting answers is reflected in the graph, even if an audit of the rep history would come up with a different number. Additionally, reputation changes from normal deleted posts don't cause a discrepancy between the graph's reputation and actual reputation either. If we don't want to call out these events in the rep history, should we also do something about this graph to avoid broadcasting what happened in the summary?
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I posted a question which was closed as off-topic and it seems like it could fit on another site in the network. How can I go about moving it there?   What is migration? When can a question be migrated, and who can migrate it? When should I consider migration, and when is it inappropriate? What causes a migration to be blocked and what happens after? What causes a migration to be rejected and what happens after? Anything else I should know about migration?