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geekhack Community => Keyboards => Topic started by: thestateofmay on Thu, 01 October 2020, 17:15:16

Title: Banned for no reason?
Post by: thestateofmay on Thu, 01 October 2020, 17:15:16

I have multiple computers I use to sign in to Geekhack. On some of them, I use VPN services. This morning, one of my laptop shows that I have been banned, and the ban is permanent. I'm a bit perplexed, I'm 100% sure that I haven't done anything get myself banned, the only thing I can think of is that my VPN caused the servers to mark my activities suspicious and subsequently ban me.

I was getting ready to make a new account and ask this question when I noticed that my other laptop (the one I'm using now), which never used VPNs, can still log on (and post this message). My guess is that this laptop is still holding a cookie session that hasn't expired?

Admins? Can someone investigate this for me and potentially un-ban me?

Title: Re: Banned for no reason?
Post by: powwu on Thu, 01 October 2020, 17:35:12

yeah vpns will get you banned, it's just a false positive to prevent spam

Title: Re: Banned for no reason?
Post by: thestateofmay on Fri, 02 October 2020, 03:11:42

Quote from: powwu on Thu, 01 October 2020, 17:35:12

yeah vpns will get you banned, it's just a false positive to prevent spam

wait so the ban was just a false alarm?

Title: Re: Banned for no reason?
Post by: suicidal_orange on Fri, 02 October 2020, 06:31:56

Yup, if you were banned you couldn't post from any device.

There's a sticky for exactly this scenario (https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=57803.0) and it's exactly as you thought - clear your geekhack cookies and you will be 'unbanned' :)