What you just wrote is a bit unclear. Is it about "implementing" or "securing"? If I were in your place, I guess I would just ask the (full) question, then let it be answered or closed (that's not a big deal).
Also pet-peeve of mine: Programmers acting as if programming is some mysterious skill they had to climb a mountain for and train with monks there for a decade before mastering it.
It's not like the vast majority of them are just maintaining some program they didn't write, which takes some input and puts it in a database.
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@MechMK1 lol
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@MechMK1 Yeah, I dislike that too. But pen-testers also pretend the same thing.
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When a traditional infrastructure pen-test is typically quite easy to carry out well. Most environments are horribly insecure with horribly outdated systems.
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It basically just becomes a beginner CTF for a pen-tester with a year experience.
I may be biased (narrator: he is), because I'm a pentester (narrator: a shitty one, though), but I don't see myself as something "better" than the rest. Pentesting is a skill that anyone can obtain and I highly encourage all developers I talk to to grow a "hacker" mindset
E.g. You built the application to work. But have you ever asked yourself how you could break it?
And the bad thing is, deleting your own question makes it worse
So imagine you are a new user and you ask a question. You have no idea how SE works, so you just ask. No code examples, just a vague "I don't know what's wrong. Please help"
Then people downvote because no MCVE, no clear question, etc...
OP feels ashamed, deletes the question to save face
This repeats a few times, suddenly OP is autobanned
Yeah. That is not great design. I understand the need to automatically stop people from asking to many low quality questions because there just isn't enough human man power to moderate everything. But perhaps there is some better way.
Also completely unrelated: It took me so many years, but I finally realized that nobody else can make me happy. Happiness comes from within myself.
It doesn't mean I can't be happy with others. I am happy with my girlfriend, and my friends, and my family. But none of them could replace the happiness from within me if it wasn't there in the first place.
Without it, everything else would be hollow. As if I was borrowing something that wasn't mine.
@Anders The FAQ explicitly mentions if you create a new account to evade the ban you're fucked for good (e.g. same IP, etc.)
@Anders I'm on the other side of such a relationship, with my girlfriend being the one who struggles to be someone outside of the relationship. Things are getting much better now though, now that we identified this issue,.
@MechMK1 Sounds like a new design would be needed for the autobanning... Actually an area where I think a more data driven design process, as opposed to just people guessing at meta, would be good.
@Anders I think autobanning should be removed entirely. We had some candidates here on InfoSec who just regularly posted really bad content. After getting -5 on every question they left eventually
@Anders Thank you very much. I've been working a lot on my mental health the past few months
Particularly in the way I act in the relationship with my girlfriend, and me second-guessing myself all the time