Ip banned for posting a normal comp

Tinyshoes

Pyxis wrote: »

About half an hour ago I got banned.

While I realised it was probably the anti-spamming stuff going on, I still found it rather upsetting.

I sent off a technical fault message.

Is this likely to happen again? It gave me quite a shock.

My IP was banned around the same time as you today. I sent off a technical fault message too and just got an email back saying MSE could not deal with personal money saving questions. :eek:

In the end I turned off my router to get back on.

But I must admit I did find it upsetting when I managed to read the reasons why IP's are banned on the main MSE site. I couldn't even read the forums at the time to find it has happened to others.

Mandelbrot

It's well past time that MSE got a grip on this issue ...

Banning normal users (as collateral damage) because their techies can't come up with a better anti-spam solution is no way for a multi-million pound organisation to behave.

pogofish

I've noticed a few public wi-fi hotspots are IP banned, but others from the same providers are not, Is that because of spammers using them?

cathyj

Ug i have got banned, i only posted the good morning britain competition. I dont why this is. Having to log in by my 4g phone to post this message. Hope i can get it sorted soon

weeowens

I thought I was safe after this happened to me today. I changed to another location & all was fine. I am still at the second physical location.
I am now getting this when I try to reply to comp thread:
Unable to post your message. Please try again.
Earlier today I got:



then:





When I tried to contact the administrator via the report button I got:





I emailed MSE admin re the issue.

weeowens

I can now post from the first location.I will check the second location later today.

Marmaduke123

weeowens wrote: »

I thought I was safe after this happened to me today. I changed to another location & all was fine. I am still at the second physical location.
I am now getting this when I try to reply to comp thread:
Unable to post your message. Please try again.
Earlier today I got:



then:





When I tried to contact the administrator via the report button I got:





I emailed MSE admin re the issue.

I had this too a few days ago when trying to reply to a post. I didn't find it easy to uncover an email address I could use to report what had happened, and by the time I'd done this all was back to normal.

I assumed it was something to do with the anti spam measures, but surely it should be possible to distinguish between regular forum users and potential spammers.

fermi

Seems best to email [STRIKE][EMAIL="forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com"]forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com[/EMAIL] [/STRIKE]saying what happened, with username and IP that is banned.

EDIT: or better it seems, forumfeedback@moneysavingexpert.com

weeowens

fermi wrote: »

Seems best to email [EMAIL="forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com"]forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com[/EMAIL] saying what happened, with username and IP that is banned.

I contacted them via email on both occasions/locations.

Stupidly I did not add the IP address but if requested I will email that as well.

Former_MSE_Andrea

Hi!

If you're affected by this please email your username and IP address to forumfeedback@moneysavingexpert.com.

Thank you!