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I got a message saying I was banned...
« on: January 13, 2011, 06:02:29 PM »
Hi,
Earlier when trying to access the fourms, I got this message:


"An Error Has Occurred! Sorry Solar Dragon, you are banned from using this forum!
Inappropriate behavior."

I don't know why this was and whether it was a bug or someone made a mistake. If anyone can shed some lingt on this, please do. I haven't done anything wrong and haven't received any warnings or anything.

Thanks

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Re: I got a message saying I was banned...
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2011, 06:04:53 PM »
Definitely was a bug- I got an email from a user here earlier saying they were banned as well, and when I went to investigate, I got the same message.

I'm assuming someone tried to do an IP ban and accidentally did the server IP. It's happened a couple times before.
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Re: I got a message saying I was banned...
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2011, 06:28:43 PM »
Definitely was a bug- I got an email from a user here earlier saying they were banned as well, and when I went to investigate, I got the same message.

I'm assuming someone tried to do an IP ban and accidentally did the server IP. It's happened a couple times before.

Hi, that was me.

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Re: I got a message saying I was banned...
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2011, 07:24:39 PM »
Ok. I was just worried I had done something wrong.

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Re: I got a message saying I was banned...
« Reply #4 on: January 13, 2011, 09:34:23 PM »
It was a mistake, it happened to several users, don't worry.


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Re: I got a message saying I was banned...
« Reply #5 on: January 13, 2011, 10:28:47 PM »
When I saw the message I thought I had been hacked.

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Re: I got a message saying I was banned...
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2011, 10:49:22 PM »
I got the emails and I was like, "Huh?" cause the message displayed was I think what I put for when I banned someone yesterday, but I definitely only banned one user.

Very strange, but at least it's taken care of. :)

Edit: It was from me, I banned a range of hostnames rather than simply just the IP. So remember kiddies, when doing IP bans on trolls, only ban their IP, not their host, because a lot of people may use the same ISP! :P

My apologies. Kind of embarrassed. 8)
« Last Edit: January 13, 2011, 10:57:32 PM by Xizor »



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