IP blacklist issue

ISO · Post Post #0 (ISO) » Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:37 pm

About 15 minutes ago, when I tried to post from my phone my post was blocked, saying my IP was blacklisted and linking to a site about blocking spam bots. I have never seen this message before, and was able to post from my hotel Wi-Fi fine. I'm completely baffled why my mobile data IP would be blacklisted. Can anyone help?

Ythan · Post Post #1 (ISO) » Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:39 pm

Your diction is much more realistic than JokeExplainBot's.

ISO · Post Post #2 (ISO) » Thu Dec 31, 2015 12:41 pm

What's joke explain bots?

chamber · Post Post #3 (ISO) » Thu Dec 31, 2015 2:24 pm

We use an external service to block spammer IPs, nothing easy we can do about it.

ISO · Post Post #4 (ISO) » Sun Jan 03, 2016 5:57 pm

Forgot to say this went away. Still no idea what caused it but not a problem anymore. Thanks anyway.

chamber · Post Post #5 (ISO) » Sun Jan 03, 2016 8:37 pm

They remove blocks after a certain period. Someone used your closest phone tower to do something sketchy, they stopped doing it and the block timed out.

Kraeg · Post Post #6 (ISO) » Thu Jan 07, 2016 10:40 pm

Same thing happened to me, but not sure if it has resolved already by this time.