I recently got banned from SoftwareEngineering.StackExchange.com. The point of this post is not to get the ban lifted, or to argue with the negative scores of my posts. It is to discuss the ban system and whether or not it could be improved.  The thing is, that even though I recently got the ban, the two posts that (most likely) caused the ban are more than three years old (see the screenshot). According to the guidelines the ban can be lifted by improving the score of negative received posts or simply by waiting six months. Since the posts are so old that no one will ever see them, the only real option is to wait for six months.   So here are my two points:   Could the system be improved so that the ban occurs sooner after the negative received posts. Improving the feedback loop, would (probably) lead to faster reactions improving poor questions, leading to higher quality content. I am aware that this might be a technically difficult thing to implement though. Make the ban period start from the date, where the users latest poor post was submitted, rather than the users latest post (even if that was well received). This would seem like a more "fair" way of doing things, but it would possibly prevent a more poor questions, as the "time-to-think" period would occur immediately after the problematic post(s) and not years later, where the quality of the posts already increased (at least in my case).   And again, I have no hopes or expectations for my own account with this post. It is meant to discuss the system, not me personally.  What do you think?
The  mentions that it's possible to post one more question after a six-months waiting period and if the question is good enough, the question ban can be lifted:     If you're unable to improve your existing questions, you'll get the chance to ask one new one 6 months after your last question. If that question is positively received, you may be able to continue asking questions; if not, then the ban will be reinstated.   What is positively received in this context? Is it enough if the question has a zero score and is not closed? Or does it have to have a positive score?  How long does the system wait after posting this new question to evaluate this criteria and possibly lift (or reinstate) the question ban?
This is a problem from Rudin's Functional Analysis:  Show that there is a sequence of functions $\{ f_n \}$ in $X$ (the vector space of all complex functions) such that $f_n \to 0$ pointwise, but if any sequence $\{ \gamma_n \}$ tends to $\infty$, $\gamma_n f_n \not\to 0$.  The hint says to use the fact that the collections of all complex sequences converging to $0$ has the same cardinality as $[0,1]$. Honestly, this confused me more than it helped me.  My main issue is through the method of showing existence: I am not sure if I should attempt to construct an explicit sequence $f_n$, or if I need to appeal to other nonconstructive means such as Zorn's Lemma, etc. I have been trying to construct clever choices of sequences for a good bit now, but it always seems like I will be able to find a sequence that diverges slowly enough to allow that $\gamma_n f_n \to 0$.   Thanks! Choosing C++ debugger on linux Wikipedia onebox is dropping random text Random text is getting dropped from Wikipedia oneboxes. See . Screenshot:  This occurs regardless of HTTP/HTTPS and of whether a redirect URL is entered into chat. I initially thought the bug is triggered by &lt;span&gt;s or other HTML formatting elements, but in the Burj Khalifa article's HTML source code, there is no formatting around one of the deleted words. Possibly related to , but this is not specific to numbers. I'm wondering if there's any log which stores information about a particular program such as when the program has started and closed manually on Windows such as MS Word, or Chrome. Any ideas? How does the coin limit work? Debian based system, only one gui program, nothing else I would like to make a debian system where you can only open one GUI program at boot, no other graphical interface, no minimize, or any X apart from that program, is there a way to do it on debian if possible, or any other custom distro? I just want to boot open the program and allow the user to only see and use that program. Short story with competitors complaining to government about a new very popular synthetic food Synthetic foods are all the rage, and while some are new and novel, many are attempts to recreate the taste and texture of a natural foods, with varying degrees of success. One company introduces a new synthetic food that becomes wildly popular. The competition analyzes it, and based on discovering what natural creature it is based on, they petition the government to ban it.      They discover that the product is synthetic human flesh, so consuming it is not technically cannibalism, but it is similar, as they explain to the panel of government officials. what's different between each and collect method in Ruby Suppose that $f$ is differentiable on $\mathbb{R}$ and $\lim_{x\to \infty}f'(x)=M$. Show that $\lim_{x\to \infty}f(x+1)-f(x)$ exists and find it. I've been stuck on this question for a long time now and was wondering if anyone could show me how it's done. So far I have done the following: Since $\lim_{x\to \infty}f'(x)=M$ then $\forall \epsilon ,\exists A &gt;0$  s.t. if $x&gt;A$ then $|f'(x)-M|&lt;\epsilon$. So we have that $M-\epsilon&lt;f'(x)&lt;M+\epsilon$. By MVT on $[x,x+1]$ for $x&gt;A$, $\exists c\in (x,x+1)$ s.t. ${f(x+1)-f(x)\over 1}=f'(c)$. Therefore, $M-\epsilon&lt;f(x+1)-f(x)&lt;M+\epsilon$. However, I do not know what to do after this. I have set of temp files created in my folder with .bak extensions. How can I make them hide by default in Ubuntu?  I tried adding a .hidden file with *.bak as entry in the file, but that is not working. Any help is very appreciated... Partitions of $n$ into distinct odd and even parts proof Let $p_\text{odd}(n)$ denote the number of partitions of $n$ into an odd number of parts, and let $p_\text{even}(n)$ denote the number of partitions of $n$ into an even number of parts.  How do I prove that    $|p_\text{even}(n) - p_\text{odd}(n)|$ is equal to the partitions of $n$ into distinct odd parts. Show that the number of partitions of $n$ for which no part appears exactly once is equal to the number of partitions of n for which every part is divisible by 2 or 3. Show that the number of partitions of $n$ for which no part appears more than twice is equal to the number of partitions of $n$ for which no part is divisible by 3. "Overclocking" an AVR In AVR datasheets under the Electrical Characteristics section you will typically find a graph like this (this one is from the ATMega328):    I've seen designs that seem to "work" but operate outside the shaded envelope. Specifically, I've seen 3.3V (Arduino) designs that run the clock from an external 16MHz crystal. Clearly, this is out of spec. What are the practical negative consequences of running outside this envelope? List all the conjugate classes in the dihedral group of order $2n$ and verify the class equation.  The dihedral group is generated by two elements $r$ and $s$.   The order of $r$ is two since $r^2=e$ and $s$ is $n$ since $s^n = e$. And I know all elements can be produced as either $s^k$ or $rs^k$. How can I list all the conjugacy class? Find the order of $8/9, 14/5,48/28$ in the additive group of $\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$ Find the order of $8/9, 14/5,48/28$ in the additive group of $\mathbb{Q}/\mathbb{Z}$    JUNK  Guessing asking for $8/9 * k = 0 $ (being a whole integer) for smallest integer so for this one is 9 . another guess would be the smallest element of $Q/Z$ being something like $9/8$  $14/5$ would be 5  $48/28=12/7$ would be 7? Version error when uploading Change Set I’m trying to deploy custom objects, custom fields, page layouts, compact layouts, Lightning pages and Global value set (global picklist) , when uploading changeset it is giving me API version error as out production platform version 46.0 and SB version is 47.0 , I’m not sure how to bring the version down to 46.0 (There are no Apex triggers/classes in the changeset). Any help would be really appreciated. , to correct a misspelled library enum in an answer. Since the edit was only one character, I also had to add a superfluous sentence to get over the character limit required to edit a post.  I've hit this problem before in other edits, always in code snippets. Since the edit limit exists to prevent trivial edits, and since there are many cases where one character code edits are not trivial (= to == etc), would it make sense to have a lower edit minimum inside code snippets? Why are effective pixels greater than the actual resolution? compares Canon EOS 550D and Canon EOS 500D cameras and mentions     18.7 million effective pixels   for 550D. However the best resolution possible using this camera is  5184 * 3456 = 17915904 ~ 17.9 million pixels   What are effective pixels, and why is that number greater than 17.9 million in this case? Children's bike problem with back wheel My daughter has sparkle and glitz 12 inch bike with stabilizers (training wheels). Since we purchased the bike every now and again the back wheel keeps spinning when she is pedaling. This seems to happen more when there is a bit of an incline.  Any suggestions what problem could be? Customizing the output of Compass sprites How do I implement basic "Long Polling"?