Yea it looks like I was banned and it looks like I was banned more then once. I have an @gmail email address, and one at a custom domain I use professionally.<p>I cant login to either.<p>It also seems like I am not the only one: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;np.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;learnprogramming&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1wpbhv&#x2F;i_embarrassed_myself_on_stack_overflow_and_i_need&#x2F;cf461uj" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;np.reddit.com&#x2F;r&#x2F;learnprogramming&#x2F;comments&#x2F;1wpbhv&#x2F;i_e...</a><p>That was linked in the article.<p>I spent that entire week upset because I felt I did something wrong (this was back when I was like 14, 2 years into programming and still very much an emotional edgy teen).<p>I&#x27;m very lucky that I eventually brought it up to a long time IRC friend and programming &quot;mentor&quot; of mine Steve who said that he was also banned. To me this was crazy as I could not understand how he could have been banned. He was, and still is, my last go-to resort for programming help; basically Mister Miyagi.<p>Because of this, I have surmised that to be good at programming, you need to be banned from SOF for asking a perfectly reasonable question.<p>Edit: I was banned when I asked for help with writing a 3D matrix camera with not problems from gimbal lock and another time for asking if there was a datatype for allowing two threads to mutate the same state.<p>Back then, I did not know about locking, concurrency, and all of the cool jazz. I learned most of what I know myself.<p>Thank god google indexes all of the closed SOF posts or I would have never been able to.