If your IP number has been banned

[TubaDiva]

We fight spammers aggressively at the SDMB. One of the tools we use to keep them out is to ban their IP numbers when we find them.

It is possible that when we do this you may be accidentally blocked from the board.

We want all the community members to be able to access the board, we want our lurkers, too. What we don't want is spammers, who have been especially pesty lately.

If you find you cannot sign in to the board please contact TubaDiva @ aol. com

In your email please list the IP address you are currently using, that will go a long way towards solving the problem. If you do not know your IP number go to this site, it will tell you: http://www.whatismyip.com/

We hope that this process will go smoothly to keep spammers out and you connected. Please bear with us as we sort this out. Thanks.

[Peter Morris]

Very helpful advice, Tuba.

Of course, someone whose IP has been blocked won't be able to see it, but you can't have everything.

[Czarcasm]

Originally Posted by Peter Morris

Very helpful advice, Tuba.

Of course, someone whose IP has been blocked won't be able to see it, but you can't have everything.

IP blocking does not prevent you from reading the board, only from signing in.

[Peter Morris]

Wrong. I was suspended a while back. I couldn't read the boards. I couldn't even read Cecil's columns. Everything I tried just gave me a message saying my IP was blocked.

If you don't believe me, ask the admins to block your own IP for one day. See if you can read the boards.

[Chris Lago]

Originally Posted by Czarcasm

IP blocking does not prevent you from reading the board, only from signing in.

I can confirm that once your IP is blocked you are neither able to read, write nor register. Thanks to the Admins for "unblocking" my IP.

As requested: "Please register to the board and make a sample post -- even a test post in ATMB would be fine "

Done!

Thx ones again.

Chris

[Nunzio Tavulari]

I recently found that I unable to start a new thread. Have you closed down the board to members only? I can sign in and I can reply to messages but there is no button to initiate a new thread.

[TubaDiva]

I don't see anything out of the ordinary with your settings, Nunzio. And we have not changed anything.

Wonder if this is a local hardware or software issue -- perhaps a browser problem. How are you accessing the board? What type of machine? What operating system, and what version number? What browser are you using and what version of that is going on?

Usually this sort of thing becomes an issue when the target device/system is so cutting edge and advanced that the current board programming can't handle it ... or so old that it can't function with the message board software, the ads, or some other function on the page.

How are you getting to us? While most people today are cable or DSL or wireless of some kind, we do still have a few diehards on dial up.

Any of these things may be an issue.

I'm not saying absolutely that's what's going on with you -- but since it is just you and just one thing, it does make me wonder.

So please tell me what you're doing and how you're doing it and let's look at that. You don't have to discuss your business publicly; send an email to TubaDiva@aol.com if you prefer.

And certainly if anyone else has seen this problem, tell us about it.

Sorry for your inconvenience, Nunzio.

[dhkendall]

Nunzio,

Was this in the "Marketplace" forum? Only members can start new threads there.

[TubaDiva]

Oh yes, that's right -- Nunzio, please try in another forum area.

[gnarlycharlie]

hi all!

i just registered . i can confirm that if your IP address is banned, you cannot see anything on the boards. i had to email the webmaster as well as ask a friend here for help.

with that, i'm glad to be here. cheers!

[AK84]

I sent off an email to the websmaster recently on this. I have been travelling a lot recently and logging on from different places. I also purchased a new router and intenet connection at home for use with my old one; and that seems to have had its IP address banned. Help

[TubaDiva]

Please send me an email (that's TubaDiva @ aol com) and give me the IP numbers in question.

To determine those numbers, please go here:

http://www.whatismyip.com/

I need the full number.

We'll figure out how to let you in but keep the spammers out.

Sorry for your inconvenience.

[Merinsan]

I recently discovered my IP was banned, and had to email the admin to get access. And yes, I couldn't even read the boards, although I could read the main page.
So here is my "test" post.

[gsl2006]

aloha,
my IP ban was lifted and im in here. it's incredible !!!

[Ms Boods]

test post from Ms Boods -- I have the message board bookmarked on my home computer, but I have to log in each new session; going to the site got me a message that my IP has been banned, but when I attempted to log in anyway, well, here I am.

Bizarre!

[Enderw24]

I was banned for about two hours this morning. I sent a letter to the webmaster and it got sorted out. No idea what the issue was, but they said my IP was banned.

Just a helpful hint: having this thread where you ask us to provide all this information is completely useless when I'm banned and can't access this thread at all. Any information you want us to provide should probably be put in the notice that comes across our screen when you've blocked our access.

[randomface]

Test.

I was banned about an hour ago and now am finally unbanned. I think.

[hajario]

The entire membership was banned for about two hours. Some sort of glitch which I am sure will be explained shortly.

[Quasimodem]

Okay, this just happened to me, so I signed from one of my e-mail answers. I did freak a little though!

Q

[cblackhand]

Test message, I appear to have been unbanned.

[villa]

I was blocked today too. I felt like such a rebel!

[twickster]

Yeah, there was something goofy going on -- no one could get on the boards.

Thanks, Jerry, for fixing it so fast!

twickster, for the SDMB

[MissTake]

Ditto.

[MikeS]

I was banned for about 90 minutes too. I note that there weren't any posts in GQ between about 10:15 and 11:45, so I'm wondering if it was some site-wide hiccup.

[dangermom]

Originally Posted by hajario

The entire membership was banned for about two hours. Some sort of glitch which I am sure will be explained shortly.

Well, that does explain a lot. I was confused--and since I couldn't access the board at all, I couldn't read this thread either.

[jz78817]

oh, so it wasn't just me

[Ogre]

I was IP banned today as well. Very strange feeling. Thanks for letting me back in (now I'm curious, though...why did it happen in the first place?)

[TubaDiva]

A technical problem. That apparently has been fixed. Sorry for any inconvenience.

[notfrommensa]

I was blocked earlier this morning. just now got back in and I sent a message to email address above.

[Onomatopoeia]

My IP address was banned this morning. As I was wracking my brain trying to come up with who I upset yesterday, suddenly, I was unbanned.

Why do the administrators play with our emotions like this? Don't they know we have no lives and need this place like we need air to breathe?

[Jenaroph]

A new administrator is named, and the next morning everyone is banned.....COINCIDENCE??

[Ogre]

Originally Posted by hajario

The entire membership was banned for about two hours. Some sort of glitch which I am sure will be explained shortly.

No members, no posts, no spam. Duh.

(Weird.)

[Attack from the 3rd dimension]

Banned! Unbanned! Shazam!

[Dewey Finn]

Originally Posted by TubaDiva

A technical problem. That apparently has been fixed. Sorry for any inconvenience.

Inconvenience? I actually had to do some work, as opposed to goofing off here.

[Attack from the 3rd dimension]

Originally Posted by Jenaroph

A new administrator is named, and the next morning everyone is banned.....COINCIDENCE??

Everything since the Buckeye incident has been leading up to this moment.

[Kiber]

Wow - for just a bit there I felt like such a badass. I mean - wow - I'm scary enough to deserve a banning. Woo hoo. Later today - I might walk rather briskly with scissors. Look out world, here I sit . . . .

[silenus]

I hereby apologize to any Administrator I may have offended at any time for any reason! Honest!

[Love Rhombus]

Yeah, I was banned too. Glad to know others were in the same odd boat. Well, not glad, but you know.

[MOIDALIZE]

Originally Posted by TubaDiva

A technical problem. That apparently has been fixed. Sorry for any inconvenience.

It was Marley, wasn't it?

[Lightnin']

I was briefly banned- it's good hear that it wasn't something I said.

[Dr. Girlfriend]

Shew. I was wondering who I had bothered enough to get myself banned! I know I gave some lousy answers in the Match Game thread...

[Quasimodem]

Tuba. is there something wrong with e-mail notifications as well? I just got jz78817 and Dangermom's posts 6 times and 3 times respectively.

Thanks

Q

[Snickers]

Oof. Good to know it was everyone. I was all, "what?! I didn't even do anything! I've never even been warned!"

I sent my email to the addy given in the message - a "webmaster@something.com."

And yeah, if you're banned, you can't see nothin'. I panicked, for a bit.

[Biffy the Elephant Shrew]

Pre-emptively banning the entire membership--well, it would save time...

[heatmiserfl]

I was banned when I attempted to post a TLDR, TMI post in the thread pitting elbows. How did you guys know I was about to embarrass myself?

Thanks!

[DrFidelius]

... and here I almost took it personally.

[crowmanyclouds]

Here I was, feelin' all special . . . and everyone gets their IP address banned!


CMC fnord!

[Rhythmdvl]

Relevant thread:
Welcome our new administrator Marley23

[Anonymous Coward]

My sister was banned once...

[Colophon]

Well, I had a great time browsing the boards while all you riffraff were locked out.

*evil laugh*



Not really, I was banned too. By the time I'd sent an email to the webmaster, I could get back in.