Here&#x27;s what SE has to say about auto-blocking: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;question-bans" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;stackoverflow.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;question-bans</a><p>&gt; ... The exact formula for the bans is not disclosed, but users are only banned if they have a significant number of heavily down-voted, zero-voted, or deleted posts. One or two bad posts will not cause you to be blocked from using the site.<p>So what happened is definitely against current SO policy and auto-banning rules. If you want to share the question URLs and your SO user id to help sort out what happened, I&#x27;d be happy to assist, I can see deleted posts, I&#x27;m a fan of SO and I would raise a ruckus if I had proof that new users were banned after asking two programming questions.