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Orionss28907y@elazar I'm not a native english speaker. Then my question are sometimes unclear.
Then, people come, put a downvote, and leave without leaving a comment to ask for precision.
Then I get misunderstood.
But even with this fact, the vast majority of my question are 0+ so I don't understand why an only question put to -12 got me banned -
620hun81907yStackoverflow is a fascist community. I never ask, because people are so vicious there.
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I don't use SO but I'm on several other SE communities. I've never had a problem but the rules are quite heavy, there's not a lot of room for mistakes... Had a few answers closed as question was flagged off topic and that's pretty much it...
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krlooss4917yYour even have an accepted answer. Either it got edited or the English is all alright from the beginning
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th3113247yThat really sucks, are you sure you got banned just because you had 12 downvotes on one question? The question isn't bad and it seems unlikely that that alone would be enough to have you banned. Maybe request a reason from support at least. But after that I'd follow what other people said and just fuck them off.
It seems like it's become more of a community for inflating your own ego through correcting people, than for helping people through teaching them. -
Been there, done that. The rules are too heavy, I felt intimidated when I was new to programming and have had my questions flagged for other questions that were for something different. From what I read, your question was appropriate and English checked out well.
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Stack Overflow moderator Madara Uchiha here. Sorry to hear you got so frustrated. The system automatically restricts users who consistently receive downvotes and closevotes on their questions until they improve their original questions.
While I'm aware it's not a perfect system, this isn't the only downvoted question you have on your account (and yes, deleted questions count towards that), and you weren't "banned" by anyone.
Have you read (actually, truly, read) the help articles with regards to how to ask a good question and what's expected of you? (Code to reproduce the problem, what you've tried/searched, why it didn't work, what you get vs what you expect, etc). Questions that have all those elements are rarely downvoted.
I've upvoted a question of yours, that lifted the automatic suspension. **NOTE THAT IN ORDER TO NOT BE SUSPENDED AGAIN, YOU NEED YOUR QUESTIONS TO RECEIVE UPVOTES**, that will give you a buffer away from the suspension threshold.
Good luck, hope you stay :) -
Orionss28907y@MadaraUchiha It's nice from you but I can't even understand how people should notice I edited the question (because I did) and sometimes (to not say most of the time), the downvotes are purely arbitrary and it's totally obscure to me to understand why this last question was downvoted.
Thank you to have take some times for me anyway.
(This system is really really shitty, you know?) -
Well... Stackoverflow would save itself a lot of trouble if in order to downvote you would have to give a valid reason to do so instead of receiving a -1. It would be helpful to so many users who would be directed to their exact error instead of sitting there wondering "what did I do wrong?". Also you would be able to weed out the idiots who downvote here and there to feel superior.
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@cyberlord64 Most downvoted questions *do* have comments on them with links to the help articles. Most users choose to ignore them ("bah, wall of text" or "I don't need no help").
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@MadaraUchiha Sure, after a comment has reached -5 somebody may indeed bother to add why. The thing is it shouldn't reach that point. If from the first -1 the user has a clear direction on what he did wrong, he may proceed instantly to fix it. Instead the users comment is spiraling down to into a region and locked there. Once locked, your negative comment serves no other purpose than "scaring" you from repeating a similar mistake. It is otherwise useless to the community.
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@cyberlord64 The sad truth is that most users won't do anything even when commented and directed in the right direction (I know, I spent the better part of 3 years religiously explaining every downvote I gave). I'm afraid forcing comments as a part of downvotes will demonstrably not work.
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In my case, it had been years since I had registered in Stack Overflow but I had never used it. When I started using it in 2016, I read the rules of the community, I answered some questions (although the low score of the account does not allow answering the questions, it is only available to post comments). Anyway, I saw questions without answers and I knew the problems in which help was asked. So I thought maybe I could help, I answered those questions and I received positive VOTES. That way, slowly, I gained a normal reputation in several weeks. But a few days later, people began to vote negatively ALL posts in my profile so that my account would be automatically blocked without any reason (so many years that the account was not used and in just two weeks it disappeared). They use "the rules", as an excuse for the frustrations they have. They and the creator of the community, which allows that behavior, are sick Nazis. So...
FUCK YOU, STACK OVERFLOW! -
Surianto05ySO true! they also banned me from asking questions due to having asked just one unclear question by mistake because I did not know much about programming at that point. I did not understand why they freaking need their websites to be PERFECT?? I would say they are getting more pompous if there are more people using their stupid website. I will not recommend it to my friends or anyone I know. TICKED OFF!
Stop using it if you can! there are way many better websites to ask questions and get answers, but DO NOT use StackExchange, unless you want to meet arrogant people and their moderators there.
Fuck you StackOverflow! Why do you ban people who have a positive score? Shit, I'm raging right now. I have a positive fucking score! It is not because I asked a few questions that were not well received by your fucking elitist overrated frustrated community that I should be banned!
And fuck off I'm not a native english speaker, it is OBVIOUS that I won't be able to make perfect sentence in all contexts.
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK
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