Yes, but your ability to ask questions will be limited to one question per week until you can demonstrate an adequate level of quality in your contributions.Īre we now essentially saying 'if you get banned, just create a new account'? Sure, you'll be limited in the amount of questions you can ask, but you can keep asking.Īnd if that is really the case (by all means correct me if I misinterpret the statement), why are we still banning in the first place? Why not just throttle. Recently I was looking at the canonical post on bans again: What can I do when getting “We are no longer accepting questions/answers from this account”?Īfter an edit made a while ago it now states: Can I simply create a new account?

And it seems that in at least some instances of users showing effort and improvements, posts too bad to recover from are disassociated to help them out.Īll fair enough, but something strikes me as odd. To help users out a bit more they are now warned well before hitting a ban. Getting out of a ban once you've hit it is (apparently) not always that trivial. Now, disregarding some of the feasibility issues of that statement, that used to be the default answer. I would encourage you to just open one with another email address it's fairer to do so.The bottom line of post-bans and creating new accounts has in the past always been 'don't try to circumvent bans in that way, it will get you into trouble'.

The only problem is I deleted the account of someone who didn't do anything wrong, he just had almost had the exact same email address, I kinda feel bad about it. Then I tried to open a new LinkedIn with my email address and FINALLY it worked. I changed the password, got in and simply deleted the account. So I used 'forgotten password' with his email address and strangely I still got the mail to change the password in MY gmail account, even though I have never received any of his emails in the past. Sorry I am a few months late but I had the exact same problem for a week, it just said 'something went wrong' over and over again but that's how I managed to open an account, it's very confusing but it works.īasically, someone opened an account with the exact same email address as me but without a dot in the middle, say mine was ' and his was ' with no dot between 'john.doe'.

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