# If your IP number has been banned **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [February 6, 2011, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396 "2011-02-06T14:39:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cblackhand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@cblackhand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cblackhand)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/24 "2011-09-07T15:48:55Z")
Test message, I appear to have been unbanned. ---
**Author:** ![villa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc79bd/32.png) [@villa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/villa)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/25 "2011-09-07T15:49:05Z")
I was blocked today too. I felt like such a rebel! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/26 "2011-09-07T15:49:09Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/27 "2011-09-07T15:49:29Z")
Ditto. ---
**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/28 "2011-09-07T15:49:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/29 "2011-09-07T15:51:00Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/30 "2011-09-07T15:52:22Z")
oh, so it wasn’t just me 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/31 "2011-09-07T15:52:23Z")
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?) ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/32 "2011-09-07T15:52:57Z")
A technical problem. That apparently has been fixed. Sorry for any inconvenience. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/33 "2011-09-07T15:52:58Z")
I was blocked earlier this morning. just now got back in and I sent a message to email address above. ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/34 "2011-09-07T15:53:01Z")
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? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/35 "2011-09-07T15:53:06Z")
A new administrator is named, and the next morning _everyone_ is banned…COINCIDENCE?? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/36 "2011-09-07T15:53:33Z")
> [@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.) ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/37 "2011-09-07T15:54:27Z")
Banned! Unbanned! Shazam! ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/38 "2011-09-07T15:55:04Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/39 "2011-09-07T15:55:28Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Kiber](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kiber/32/317_2.png) [@Kiber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiber)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/40 "2011-09-07T15:55:53Z")
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 . . . . ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/41 "2011-09-07T15:56:16Z")
I hereby apologize to any Administrator I may have offended at any time for any reason! Honest! ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/42 "2011-09-07T15:56:20Z")
Yeah, I was banned too. Glad to know others were in the same odd boat. Well, not _glad_, but you know. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396/43 "2011-09-07T15:56:48Z")
> [@TubaDiva](#): > > A technical problem. That apparently has been fixed. Sorry for any inconvenience. It was **Marley** , wasn’t it? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-your-ip-number-has-been-banned/570396.md?page=3)