My friend lost the ability to ask questions, due to his first questions having negative reputation. Since then he has gained more reputation due to helpful answers.
The message he got told him to wait one day, but he has and he still cannot ask questions.
Is there a way for him to ask questions again?
I'm guessing this is your friend?
They posted and then deleted several questions. This type of behaviour is a pain, and can be a sign of spamming. The ban is automatic, and cannot be manually lifted. It will expire only once you've earned enough positive reputation to demonstrate your ability to post constructively. It is not a timed ban and it will not expire.
If your friend would like their deleted question undeleted so that they can fix them, I can do that, just leave a comment here.
If the same behaviour happens again and the auto-ban kicks in again it will be even longer, so take some time to properly research your question and make it a good one!
There are some help centre articles that can help!
As mentioned in the help center for question bans, question bans are added automatically by the system and removed by the system, so it's not something that can be manually lifted for a specific user. That user will need to contribute positively, starting with fixing their existing questions.
However, the error message for a question ban doesn't mention any sort of time limit, so your friend may be running into our question rate limiter instead. This ban is temporary and will automatically resolve itself. With that said, the intention of the rate limiter is to slow the user down so that they have time to fix their existing questions before they end up with a full question ban.
We also might be able to provide advice how the user can specifically fix those early questions if you provide links to them.
