Wrongly Banned Member

[yash101]

I dont think Brandon blocks people. I think it may be SFS blocking him because it thinks he is a spammer. I can't take a look at what he is seeing so I can't give more than a hypothesis.

Find the IP (https://google.com/search?q=what%20i...20ip%20address) and check it against the database at http://stopforumspam.com.

If it isn't in there, I suggest emailing Brandon about this at webmaster @ [this site's address]

(just to prevent spambots from getting the address)

Otherwise, we at least need the IP. If you don't want to display it correctly, talk with Brandon and PM it to him

[dtengineering]

I knew CD was good... but to ban a computer from the site for several years? Impressive.

Jason

[chmorroni]

Just because I am not there, currently, I am going to try to learn a little. Correct me if I am wrong, but, as I can access CD while on the same network, doesn't that mean that it couldn't be blocking the IP? Cookies and the like have been cleared multiple times, but that didn't help, so it can't be those. If it isn't the IP or cookies, what else could the server be using to block the machine?

I'll check the IP tomorrow, anyway, and see what I find. I'll also email Brandon. Thanks for the steps to solution!

Originally Posted by dtengineering

I knew CD was good... but to ban a computer from the site for several years? Impressive.

Jason

That was my first reaction, too. Then I realized how frustrating it must be.

[Kevin Sevcik]

Can he see ANYTHING on the site? What error message pops up when he tries to browse to CD? I'm thinking it might be something screwed up local to his computer like censorware, a bad HOSTS file, or something else.

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Can he see ANYTHING on the site? What error message pops up when he tries to browse to CD? I'm thinking it might be something screwed up local to his computer like censorware, a bad HOSTS file, or something else.

Or he could be using a proxy that has been banned.

[chmorroni]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Can he see ANYTHING on the site? What error message pops up when he tries to browse to CD? I'm thinking it might be something screwed up local to his computer like censorware, a bad HOSTS file, or something else.

Whenever he tries to load any page on the site (that we have tried, it is hard to get places without links) it loads the same page that, if I remember correctly, displays a message to the effect of "this (I think it says account) has been banned." It appears to be a message from the website itself, because it is formatted like the forum; it has the same color scheme, fonts, etc.

Originally Posted by Joe Ross

Or he could be using a proxy that has been banned.

I didn't think of that. I'll make sure to check that, as well.

Is there somewhere that I could find a list of banned proxies?