Weirdness

[CutePhoenix]

Not sure if this is the right place but it does involve a question so here goes.

I tried getting on a short while ago and the site politely informed me I was banned. Having no idea why and after multiple refreshes I sent an email to the "contact us" link to ask about it. Decided to check here one more time......voila, I'm not banned.

My question is, was it a glitch, an admin mistake or was I banned for a very short period? Only rule I can think of I may have broke is the having too many request thread rule cause I don't delete past ones when making a new one because I tend to go months and months between making them.

 

[Alvis Alendran]

Are you on a mobile device at all? If you are, you might have been passing through a public wi-fi signal that has it's IP banned. It's the most common reason something like this happens.

 

[CutePhoenix]

Yea, I use a mobile device but I was using mobile data at the time and not any wifi.

 

[Alvis Alendran]

Mobile data, while less common, can still have the same issue. So from what you've described above, don't worry, you were not temp banned, it's just a glitch that occasionally comes up with mobile devices.

 

[CutePhoenix]

Thank you kindly for clearing it up.

 

[Alvis Alendran]

No worries!

 

[Asphodel Terrarium]

I had a smilar problem with forum sites. May I ask why forum sites block public wifi IPs? Is there a way to access the site should the problem reoccur?

 

[darkangel76]

IPs, be they one a cell tower spits out or one a home and/or a public place (example, a school, library, etc) generates can be banned because the admin have purposely done so. This happens when we're getting perpetual nonsense from that specific IP. It might mean a spammer or ban evader, etc is causing a particular IP to show up on our radar and we don't want to deal. Ousting the IP can deter the individuals causing us issue.