Questions tagged [account-suspension]
Account suspension is the act of temporarily blocking the account of a specific user.
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Suspended for posting a comment disparaging of Discussions
I posted this comment on one of the many Meta questions asked about Discussions:
It's discussions. Nobody cares. Please stop posting questions about it, so that it can die faster.
and shortly later ...
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Does the community have a right to know why a moderator was banned?
I was browsing the moderator elections and noticed one of the moderators from 2015 had a reputation of 1:
I can only assume that he was banned in August 2019 for 5 years, as I see his ban is expiring ...
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Shouldn't we enforce the few existing rules for Collectives?
Right now we have few rules (beyond the enforceable SO rules) specific to each Collective (for instance, rules for RM selection within r-collective).
In the case of the CI/CD Collective, there are ...
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Recognize suspensions as being perceived as "punishment"
Something that came up quite a few times in a recent case on Meta, was that the offending user was suspended.
This sparked a lot of discussion. What caught my attention, was one of the arguments ...
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A commitment to amend and move forward
I posted ~1850 answers between March 2023 and April 2024, including ~1100 answers to bountied questions during their bounty periods. Of those 1850 answers, about two-thirds were based on generative AI ...
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Is there a reason that a user has been suspended/banned for two centuries instead of deleting their profile?
Stack Overflow blog post A day in the penalty box mentions that an account can be placed in a "timed suspension" from 1 to 365 days.
But I recently came across a user that seems to be ...
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Grammar mistake in Suspension message for Excessive discussion in comments
When visiting a profile of a user suspended for excessive discussion in comments the public suspension message on the user's profile is missing a "for" or similar to complete the sentence.
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Is leaving many pointless comments a bannable offense?
I recently wrote a question about hiding for me personally all comments by a user who left many irritating useless comments under posts in a tag I'm active in.
I was looking for this because I assumed ...
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Do suspended accounts lose their non-default profile picture?
I was checking on questions I visited yesterday, some of which are by the same user. Yesterday, this user had a non-default profile picture, but today I observed that their reputation was reduced to 1 ...
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What is the penalty for hate speech?
I don't come across hate speech often on Stack Overflow, but today I came across a suggested edit that changed a string in the code from "Do you know?" to "Do you know that Ukraine is a ...
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How long will the ChatGPT-ban banner (2022-12-08) be visible?
A big thank you to the SO staff for the big honking banner (and linked-to Help Center page) we now (2022-12-08) have that says:
We do not currently allow content pasted from ChatGPT on Stack Overflow;...
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Automatic ban for very aggressive users
Sometimes very aggressive users keep posting offending comments for quite a long time before they are suspended or banned.
IMO if the system receives a series of abuse flags - it should automatically ...
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Suspended users can make invisible comments on Collectives articles
I was looking at the activity tab of a suspended user and noticed that they had made a comment while suspended:
The link in that activity item leads to this Collectives article, but "hello world ...
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What is considered promotional content?
I recently ran into a question with the [three.js] tag that asked for help with a 3D globe randomly disappearing. This question had a link to a working demo with the problem, and the code showing the ...
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Is suspending users for voting to delete a question while being discussed on meta reasonable?
I found this question Why is only the first case statement applied in a Google Data Studio? which is discussed on meta here Regex question was closed as lacking details, but I think it was objective ...
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