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You have been permanently banned from this board
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2025 7:56 pm
by Dubious
I've received this message a few times when attempting to connect to the site.
The full message is a follows:
You have been permanently banned from this board.
Please contact the Board Administrator for more information.
A ban has been issued on your IP address.
Why specifically on my IP address; what would cause that since it doesn't refer to anything personal I may have done?
Thank You!
Re: You have been permanently banned from this board
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2025 8:14 pm
by accelafine
It happens to me too and it's getting worse. Sometimes I get a big white X on a red circle with 'YOU ARE BANNED FROM THIS SITE' written across the screen. It's a bit unnerving
Re: You have been permanently banned from this board
Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2025 8:33 pm
by Dubious
That sounds worse than what I'm getting! At times I think they may actually be doing me a favour if I were banned...and a few others who wouldn't object either. But as long as the door is open it's inevitable I'll walk through it. I know myself well enough to confirm that.
Re: You have been permanently banned from this board
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2025 2:45 am
by Walker
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPw-3e_pzqU
When you realized you were banned, did you have suspicions as to why, and question your judgment of propriety?
Re: You have been permanently banned from this board
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2025 2:53 am
by accelafine
Obviously he wasn't banned, genius, or he wouldn't be posting. FFS. What is wrong with the people on here???
Re: You have been permanently banned from this board
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2025 3:19 am
by Walker
accelafine wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 2:53 am
Obviously he wasn't banned, genius, or he wouldn't be posting. FFS. What is wrong with the people on here???
Correction:
When you thought that you were banned, did that realization give you suspicions as to why you received the message that you had been banned, and did you question your judgment of propriety based on those suspicions of what might have led you to receive that message? Or, did you blow it off as nonsense, like I did, when told that I had been banned.
Although it lacks the ultimate sophistication of simplicity, I kind of like it.
Re: You have been permanently banned from this board
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2025 4:44 am
by Dubious
Walker wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 3:19 am
accelafine wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 2:53 am
Obviously he wasn't banned, genius, or he wouldn't be posting. FFS. What is wrong with the people on here???
Correction:
When you thought that you were banned, did that realization give you suspicions as to why you received the message that you had been banned, and did you question your judgment of propriety based on those suspicions of what might have led you to receive that message? Or, did you blow it off as nonsense, like I did, when told that I had been banned.
Although it lacks the ultimate sophistication of simplicity, I kind of like it.
It was my IP address that was banned on such occasions, not me personally -
I'm working on it! - which I gather would have been a different kind of message based on my login credentials. That's the curious part. What in my IP address triggered that response...which seems to be happening more often.
Re: You have been permanently banned from this board
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2025 7:07 am
by accelafine
Dubious wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 4:44 am
Walker wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 3:19 am
accelafine wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 2:53 am
Obviously he wasn't banned, genius, or he wouldn't be posting. FFS. What is wrong with the people on here???
Correction:
When you thought that you were banned, did that realization give you suspicions as to why you received the message that you had been banned, and did you question your judgment of propriety based on those suspicions of what might have led you to receive that message? Or, did you blow it off as nonsense, like I did, when told that I had been banned.
Although it lacks the ultimate sophistication of simplicity, I kind of like it.
It was my IP address that was banned on such occasions, not me personally -
I'm working on it! - which I gather would have been a different kind of message based on my login credentials. That's the curious part. What in my IP address triggered that response...which seems to be happening more often.
Were you using a VPN?
Re: You have been permanently banned from this board
Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2025 9:50 am
by Dubious
accelafine wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 7:07 am
Dubious wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 4:44 am
Walker wrote: ↑Fri Aug 29, 2025 3:19 am
Correction:
When you thought that you were banned, did that realization give you suspicions as to why you received the message that you had been banned, and did you question your judgment of propriety based on those suspicions of what might have led you to receive that message? Or, did you blow it off as nonsense, like I did, when told that I had been banned.
Although it lacks the ultimate sophistication of simplicity, I kind of like it.
It was my IP address that was banned on such occasions, not me personally -
I'm working on it! - which I gather would have been a different kind of message based on my login credentials. That's the curious part. What in my IP address triggered that response...which seems to be happening more often.
Were you using a VPN?
Good question! No, I never once used a VPN to access this site and not any site I usually go into like bank, bill payments and suchlike. The only time I may use a VPN is to watch some programs in those places where one gets the message
not available in your country.
Re: You have been permanently banned from this board
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2025 5:28 am
by Eodnhoj7
Second time got the ban...five minutes later it was gone.
Re: You have been permanently banned from this board
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2025 12:15 pm
by RickLewis
Yes, others have been reporting this too. I am trying to find out why.
Re: You have been permanently banned from this board
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2025 12:18 pm
by RickLewis
I have a suspicion that it may be due to the Cloudflare security that we now use to keep out bots. You may have spotted media coverage of the difficulties they have been experiencing worldwide. As we only ban IP addresses very occasionally and we aren't then unbanning them five mins later, Cloudflare seems the likeliest explanation, I will discuss this with Bora.
Re: You have been permanently banned from this board
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2025 2:44 pm
by phyllo
It's possible to get out of it by deleting cookies. So it has something to do with cookies and the timing of cookies.
Re: You have been permanently banned from this board
Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2025 3:07 pm
by FlashDangerpants
Kinda looks like one of the Cloudflare load balancer endpoints is IP blocked, and the problem goes away when the 5 minute session token expires and you round-robin to another endpoint that isn't blocked.
