Sometimes little failures can happen, e.g. in my recent (myself deleted) thread about virus-scanner and something related to 3.5er Kernel - have simply overseen, that 3.5er Kernels are not on the list any more at kernel.org

But when questions are rated then as "many low-quality questions" only by fact, that questions had been downvoted somehow ... ?

... then I have to wonder about this 'penalty-system' being then 'banned' before intention to put some question with bounty (like Napoleon Bonaparte or who ? ) ?

Is penalty-system not old-fashioned like an English borstal before World War 2 ?