Question

My friend tried to make an account using my computer and it said I was IP banned??? I've only ever gotten one warning while using this computer and I didn't even get suspended so why would I be IP banned?? I'm so lost

Answer 1

Some people are IP banned for no reason, like me. Tel your friend to use another computer/tablet/phone or other device where she can sign up.

This usually has to do with warnings/suspensions but I'm not really that clear on it.

Answer 2

Thanks c:

Answer 3

Im sure she prolly got suspended or community banned or something like that......thats the only way to be ip banned unless it was done by an admin

Answer 4

if it was done by a admin then they wouldnt be able to even get on the site through that IP

and most likely as pooja said you where probably community banned without knowledge

Answer 5

if it was done by a admin then they wouldnt be able to even get on the site through that IP

and most likely as pooja said you where probably community banned without knowledge

Answer 6

This account matches one using the F word and some other fun things, so I am betting those are related to the ban.

Answer 7

Most likely cause is one of the accounts linked to your IP is permanently banned for whatever reason, and by the look of the list that pops up when IP checking you, those are a lot of accounts.

Answer 8

나의 고양이를 너무 귀여워요.

Answer 9

I saw that THOMMY I SAW THAT.

Answer 10

Woe, it says Baby_Bear69 is offline .-.

Answer 11

http://prntscr.com/88gy4l

Answer 12

That's just an occasional bug.

But yeah, if an alternate account was banned, that leads to an IP ban.

Answer 13

Leads to a signup ban... which is actually a moderator generated suggestion. So we don't have the signup wars with spammers.

Answer 14

What do you mean @e.mccormick?

Answer 15

Remember the Zalgo accounts? Ha, that was painful.

Answer 16

My suggestion was that when someone is suspended, do not allow new signups from that IP for an hour. What they actually implemented is when an IP is moderator suspended some number of times, it gets signup banned forever.

Answer 17

What do you mean by "signup banned"?

Answer 18

As in they can't make more accounts.

Answer 19

A.K.A IP Banned.

Answer 20

@e.mccormick forever? of as long as one of the accounts is suspended?
Usually those fake accounts are permanently suspended.

Answer 21

Banne from making new accounts. This has resulted in many proxies getting signup banned thanks to spammers, etc.

Answer 22

Ohhhh. Okay

Answer 23

Also I'm just wondering, can you still do that thing with the email part where you can make a billion accounts?

Answer 24

I ask lots of questions, sorry XD

Answer 25

thom, it makes it effectivly forever since we can't delete the bad word accounts....

Answer 26

We can unsuspend them. Would that lift the signup ban?

Answer 27

Reviews on that are mixed. I have tried it and had it work and tried it and had it fail... since the implementaton was never documented to the mods, no way to know why.

Answer 28

This is very interesting :D

Answer 29

I wonder if it was implemented retroactively, in that case my IP would be banned too from all the testing haha

Answer 30

Hehe.

Answer 31

A bad word filter on the possible signup names would help...

Answer 32

How is an IP ban effective? Can't they just get on another computer and make a new account with it?

Answer 33

Depends, bloom.

Answer 34

On what?

Answer 35

@BloomLocke367 they can but it would be a pain in the posterior for spammers to switch computer every time their account gets suspended xD

Answer 36

If that machine is on a banned network or not.

Answer 37

What do you mean? @e.mccormick

Answer 38

The connection the computer is on.

Answer 39

What if they use a public computer? Say in a school computer lab, or use one at a public library?

Answer 40

If the network goes though a NAT/PAT router, basic home router, then the entire network is banned. If it uses a proxy and the proxy has been banned, then it is banned. Otherwise, the change could work.

Answer 41

It's not like a spammer would put that much effort.

Answer 42

Who would spam OS at school, like really.

Answer 43

Chibi, one kid got suspended years ago for just that sort of thing.

Answer 44

Years ago!

Hasn't happened then has it?

Conq is the closest thing but he wasn't spam he was just plain obnoxious.

Answer 45

Hahahaha. I spend like the majority of my time at the library and I've always wondered how an IP ban would work for someone who uses the computers there.

Answer 46

Sorry for so many questions :D

Answer 47

There was one of the student admins that had IP access and used that to track down the source of one bad abuser. Ended up being a school. So they contacted the school, got the IT department there involved, and they tracked it to the machine when it was happening. Teen was using a library machine to do this... The other admins were not very happy with the student admin for doing it all on his own, but from what I gather, Farmdawg and Shadow did some similar things with official sanction.

Answer 48

Ohhhhh. Okay. That makes a lot more sense.

Answer 49

I have to go eat dinner, bye!

Answer 50

I tried really hard to understand all them comments.. lol I think I kinda get it now. Thanks guys c: