Posting from my phone, so trying to keep it short. I’m blocked from work today, it says my IP address is banned. Noooo! Need the dope at work. Any help?
Eta: I sent an email asking an admin, no response yet. So looking for answers here. Turns out I’m a bit addicted to doping at work
A spammer was probably using an IP similar to yours. I will try to figure out what the IP was, but if you can look it up and PM it to me, that would help.
Exact same thing happened to me. We’re bad ip block buddies!
Sorry if I didn’t post enough detail here. You can use sites like this one to look up your work IP address on your computer. If you then private message that to me, we’ll figure out the problem and adjust the ban. Right now I don’t see any of your IPs on our banned list, Nzinga, Seated, but one must have slipped in.
I sent a pm, but the short version is that I think you nailed a static business-class address block while stomping on a consumer dsl dhcp block from the same provider, maybe?
Yes, that’s probably what happened.
WHO did you send your PM to? I don’t have any information from you. Can’t fix it if I don’t know.
He sent me a PM. I will forward it to you.
I think I’ve found the problem. Please give me a few minutes.
Everybody should be back now. Our apologies.
Confirming it worked. Thanks very much for the quick response.
Mind if I ask what the problem was? My company is using vBulletin and I’m curious. 
The IP ban list got corrupted. I restored it and now we’re back to where we should be.
Again, our apologies.
I am risen from the banned, thus proving that yes, I am Jesus Christ.
Thanks, guys, for taking care of it so fast. Zerial, we were banned! I felt like a rebel revolutionary! Marley23 was all over this thing, though. Thanks again. I had the Straight Dope shakes over here.
I BELIEVE!!!one!!!
Me three. I feel like we should get matching tattoos or something.
Yeah, me too. I’m sitting here like–shit, am I actually going to have to WORK today?
And I thought it was me getting a slap from Twickster over an insult I hurled in Cafe Society! Wheeew.
I was among the banned too! What kind of tattoo should we get?
I’d just like to say thanks to Tuba Diva. I was also banned this morning, I e-mailed her and she got me back up in a very brief time. Thanks!
We do try to be careful when putting in bans but this was just a technical glitch. Once we had the correct list back in place all was right with the world again.
Sorry for any inconvenience to anyone.