How to get interest in your question again to avoid bans by asking the same question multiple times

Question

Today I noticed that I've been banned from asking questions, so now I want to know how to get interest in your question again after updated/editing it so that you can avoid reasking the question in another post/question.

I originally posted about a problem I was having with HTTPS on IIS. Someone responded and asked for more details so I edited the post with more information and some screenshots. Since then not much has happened. In the meantime though I had been researching one particular avenue and needed to ask a different question to eliminate it as a possibility. I did this by asking a new question altogether. I got down voted twice with no proper explanation as to why.

If you guys are looking to improve the content on ServerFault then why not force the people down voting to explain why they're doing so? Others reading the question may have found it a perfectly sensible question, but one or two people didn't.

EDIT: The main question is: Once you've edited your question, how can you get interest in it again? Does it show up in the Questions list again once edited?

Answer 1

I think you probably need to spend some time reading the helpful documentation that SE have thoughtfully provided, in particular:

• The Help Centre

• The Serverfault /about page

They will explain how the SE ecosystem and specifically SF work and (hopefully) answer all your questions. If not please contact SE and suggest an update.

Answer 2

OK, frankly your question here is coming off as a whine mixed with a rant (and clearly I'm not the only one who thinks so). There are a few things you need to understand right off the bat before we press on:

1. Server Fault is NOT Free Consulting (in fact, no Stack Exchange site is).
   Posting a question does not guarantee an answer.
   Getting an answer doesn't guarantee that it's not utter rubbish.
   • Corollary #1: Most of us are doing this in our spare time (either between tasks at our Real Jobs, or $deity help us, after hours)
   • Corollary #2: If you're really desperate for a solution on a time-critical problem Stack Exchange may not be the best choice.
2. Complaining about a free service gets you zero sympathy points
   (At least zero from me. Some folks probably award negative points for this.)
3. The Quality Ban is automatic <-- Go read that. I'll wait.
4. The idea of forcing comments with downvotes has been discussed to death.
   The answer was, is, and likely always shall be "NO, it's a terribad idea!".

Your network profile indicates that you've been on Stack Overflow for three years -- None of the above should be news to you.

Now that that's out of the way I'll address the answerable parts of your question.

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Once you've edited your question, how can you get interest in it again?

As others pointed out, when you edit a question it gets bumped to the top of the front page.
(You've had a Stack Overflow account for three years -- It's worked this way that whole time.).

If your question is put on hold and you edit the question to fix whatever problems caused that it is automatically added to a queue of questions to be reviewed for reopening.
If your edits don't address the problem expect your question to remain on hold. Frankly we get a lot of lousy questions - more than 50% of our daily volume - so don't expect too much hand-holding in that regard.
(I'll let you slide on this one - the new /review system and reopen queue are relatively new features.)

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How can you get more attention for your question

You have sufficient reputation to set a bounty on your question, which is the standard way of putting up a sign saying "Please pay attention to my question - It's important to me".

A bounty doesn't guarantee an answer faster (or at all), it just calls more attention to your question. You're still relying on someone with the knowledge, skills, and time to read your question and post an answer. That may happen in a few minutes, a few weeks, or never.

Answer 3

If you guys are looking to improve the content on ServerFault then why not force the people down voting to explain why they're doing so? Others reading the question may have found it a perfectly sensible question, but one or two people didn't.

The idea of requiring people to explain downvotes has been discussed repeatedly and rejected. (Search on meta.stackoverflow.com if you want to see the debates.) If you move your mouse over the downvote arrow, a tooltip pops up that explains what a downvote means: the question is unclear, not useful, or doesn't show any research effort.

Although StackExchange sites allow other people to edit and improve your questions, or to comment on what they think is wrong, there is an expectation that the person asking questions will put in some effort to make them good ones. That includes reading the documentation provided to understand what a good question is, and paying attention to comments you've gotten on other questions.