IP Banning issue should be solved

IP Banning issue should be solved

Postby hagish » 28 Jul 2019, 11:37

Hello everybody.

Due to the way the forum is setup it recently banned some internal IPs. This probably resulted in temporary banning a lot of people. Sorry for that. I excluded those internal IPs from the banning. So this should be resolved and hopefully not crop up again.
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Re: IP Banning issue should be solved

Postby fluffrabbit » 28 Jul 2019, 11:51

Huzzah! The downtime was short, so no biggie. I hope you aren't too ban-happy; sometimes the spambots are good company.
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Re: IP Banning issue should be solved

Postby Julius » 28 Jul 2019, 12:12

Due to the way we have set this forum up, 99% of the spam is only visible to us moderators (as the first post always requires approval). We sadly get a lot of spam lately, which is why this situation came up.
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Re: IP Banning issue should be solved

Postby fluffrabbit » 28 Jul 2019, 12:18

That's how you know you've got good SEO. ;)
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Re: IP Banning issue should be solved

Postby drummyfish » 28 Jul 2019, 12:30

NP but it scared me a little, I though I was legitimately banned for my political opinions here :)
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Re: IP Banning issue should be solved

Postby charlie » 30 Jul 2019, 01:56

Yeah, um, hi, it was me.

Saw a serial spammer with a garbage email/username pattern so tried to ban by IP and well what do you diddly do da I thought that IP didn't look quite right.

A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing! Sorry everybody.
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