Banned?

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It seems my original profile (mersox) has been banned. I have no idea why. I'm sure it was a misunderstanding. Can't even view the forum as a guest, I had to re-register from another computer.

Any info about this?
 
you should just post normally using new account, people are waiting for updates about your mod, if its a mistake it will be solved soon anyway.
 
Looks like your account got tied to a commercial spammer. I'll see what I can do.

DC
 
No, it was probably my fault. Spammers tend to use IP clusters, so when I catch one I ban their full range. Probably caught mersox's ISP in the crossfire.

DC
 
Man, spammers just like to create problems with member accounts. mersox's account should be unbanned. I don't know if his account got banned by accident or something. I'm hoping that his account gets an unban so that he can use it for posting updates of his MMPR.
 
Hi Damon, thanks for solving the issue.

bWWd, I couldn't just post under a new profile because mi IP was banned. When I started this thread I did it from another computer, at the university.

Talking about university, I have been very busy and so there's no updates on the mod... YET! I have to go back to it. Right now it's too buggy to release even as a beta.

Thanks everyone.
 
I am also banned since yesterday, even though I don't recall posting spam. Actually, I haven't posted that much, since I've been following just a few mods. My original account is NGboo. What's going on with the forum?
 
I haven't banned any accounts in several months - haven't had a reason to as the spammers have been pretty quiet lately. SMF (the forum software) does some funny things sometimes. Give me all the details you can and I'll try to have a look.

DC
 
Well, it seems it has to do something with Mozilla, because I do have access in Internet Explorer (although I got banned message in IE a couple of times, too). I tried to clear the cache, history, cookies and whatnot with CCleaner and I still get this:

"Sorry Guest, you are banned from using this forum!
Spam and solicitation is not allowed.
This ban is not set to expire."

Now I'm banned even as a Guest in Mozilla! :D
 
NGboo said:
"Sorry Guest, you are banned from using this forum!
Spam and solicitation is not allowed.
This ban is not set to expire."
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I wanted to show a friend the site but he got the same message yesterday, maybe you guys should reconsider your methods of banning bots, if it stops potential new members and people who a just curious from visiting the site.
 
At the time we didn't have much choice - the forum was all but under siege; spam bots were showing up and posting faster than we could ban and delete them piecemeal. Captcha sign ins and single bans weren't even slowing them down. Only thing I could do to put a stop to them was to ban the full IP range each one originated from.

We have a much tougher sign in process now based on questions any gamer would know or can look up. It seems to have stopped new spam bots from showing up, so I'll see about letting up on the IP range bans.

DC
 
Hi guys. I'm a bit confused... I can log in as mersox, but looking a my last posts I was doing so under the username Merso, and I had a signature and everything. But when trying to log in as Merso, the page tells me that the username doesn't exist. Did I have two accounts and one was deleted? Could someone clarify?

To be clear, I am not talking about the merso_returns account above.

Thanks!
 
I'm not really sure. The old account may have been purged. It's possible to do that without removing posts. Is your account (the one you're on now) working OK?
 
Damon Caskey said:
I'm not really sure. The old account may have been purged. It's possible to do that without removing posts. Is your account (the one you're on now) working OK?
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It seems like it. I can access PM's and everything. Thank you for replying, DC.
 
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