Questions about general bans on Stack Overflow. Please consider using a more specific tag, e.g. [post-ban], [edit-ban] or [review-ban].

There are several more specific types of bans:

  • An prevents a user from making or suggesting edits
  • A prevents a user from submitting questions and/or answers.
  • A prevents a user from reviewing content, generally caused by the failing of too many .
  • There is no such thing as a , but if it existed (and it doesn't), it would be a ban where the user is unable to see that they are banned: They submit content but that content is only visible to them. This is the same concept as a 'shadowban' on other sites.
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