Getting banned all over!

[dashing.sujay]

Well this is a weird problem i'm facing since months. I dunno why, My IP is banned on following forums jhonnyguru, corsair, pcmech, and many more of which i don't even know names, though i had never visited those. Just used to visit jhonnyguru seldom. I also contacted admin of pcmech, he told that to avoid spammers, he banned the whole IP range, wtf!!

*i.imgur.com/KbEBD.jpg

Has static/dynamic IP thing got to do something with it. I guess we're allocated static IP in broadband.

 

[Sarath]

Looks like you live closer to Russia

On a serious note, ask the admin to free the IP range. You must have. What did he/she say?

 

[d6bmg]

Well, its the problem with dynamic IPs. The same thing happened to me in the p2p world. I used to be quite an old member of 7-8 sites. Got banned everywhere for same reason stating that, my IP is in the same range with a ratio-cheat.


Here in your case, you can't do anything but to send support ticket to the admin, and hope that he understands everything.

 

[dashing.sujay]

@Sarath- I think i live in Hackstrovia

Followed by the already posted mail, these followed-

*i.imgur.com/DvuRG.png

Then i got pissed off, and didn't do anything untill i found out myself to be banned on multiple sites I'll have to send an e-mail now to each and every admin.

@db6mg- I guess dynamic IPs are allocated with Dial-up connection, not with broadband connection (correct me if i am wrong)

 

[Garbage]

@db6mg- I guess dynamic IPs are allocated with Dial-up connection, not with broadband connection (correct me if i am wrong)

No. Even broadband connections have dynamic IPs, unless you get a static IP specifically by your service provider.

 

[ico]

Call center advertisement 'SEO' spammers who typically have Airtel connections. Had this not been an Indian forum, I'd have done the same. Spamming is a good industry in India and China.

Switch to Opera and turn on Opera Turbo to browse these sites. Another reason why Opera > all other browsers.

 

[sygeek]

I've had the same problem with some sites. Only alternative, there's an application I use, called tunnelbear, which acts as a proxy (not technically). Basically it is a VPN service, which tunnels your internet connection to US/UK. It's primarily meant for privacy or accessing location-restricted sites.

500mb/month limit for the free account. Do some promos and other stuff, and you can easily add up to 2gb.

I'm on the pro account though, $5/month, unlimited. Pretty cheap.

 

[dashing.sujay]

No. Even broadband connections have dynamic IPs, unless you get a static IP specifically by your service provider.

I have heard your ip remains static untill and unless you restart your modem, is it true? If it is, i never turn my modem off.

Call center advertisement 'SEO' spammers who typically have Airtel connections. Had this not been an Indian forum, I'd have done the same. Spamming is a good industry in India and China.

How'd have you done it? I didn't got it exactly.

PS- Why this "had this been Indian" thing? What this has got to related with Indian forum or some other?

Switch to Opera and turn on Opera Turbo to browse these sites. Another reason why Opera > all other browsers.

How come enabling turbo solves that? I guess it then uses its server as a gateway to load faster(virtually acting as a proxy) ? BTW thnx for info.

I've had the same problem with some sites. Only alternative, there's an application I use, called tunnelbear, which acts as a proxy (not technically). Basically it is a VPN service, which tunnels your internet connection to US/UK. It's primarily meant for privacy or accessing location-restricted sites.

500mb/month limit for the free account. Do some promos and other stuff, and you can easily add up to 2gb.

I'm on the pro account though, $5/month, unlimited. Pretty cheap.

Thnx man, i will try it, rep+

 

[ico]

Here's what I mean.

I have banned almost whole of China because I used to get hundreds of spammers. May be they get spammers from India, so they have banned many Indian IP ranges.

If I was the owner of that forum, I'd have done the same.

btw, you guessed right about Opera Turbo.

 

[dashing.sujay]

Got it, thnx btw I don't think Indians are spammers like those chinese. (strict offense)

Also personally, i like opera, but dont use becoz the cursor doesn't changes to hand when taken over a link (may be its a stupid reason, but isse mujhe feel nahi aati browsing karne mein ) But i really miss the mouse gesture feature

 

[coolpcguy]

Here's what I mean.

I have banned almost whole of China because I used to get hundreds of spammers. May be they get spammers from India, so they have banned many Indian IP ranges.

Tell me about it. I've banned almost half of EU , China & Ivory Coast because spammers :/

 

[red dragon]

My ip was banned for about 6 months in this forum!!

 

[dashing.sujay]

^^You used chinese proxy or something like that?

 

[ico]

Tell me about it. I've banned almost half of EU , China & Ivory Coast because spammers :/

Do you use reCAPTCHA verification for registration in Chip? Because it sucks.

I use random questions like 'Where is Satish Dhawan Space Center?' ... 'Capital of Mizoram?' ... etc. This keeps those human Chinese CAPTCHA solvers at bay.

My ip was banned for about 6 months in this forum!!

Should have contacted me in that case.

 

[coolpcguy]

Do you use reCAPTCHA verification for registration in Chip? Because it sucks.

Not reCAPTCHA, the standard phpBB captcha. And oh yeah it sucks.

 

[dashing.sujay]

I use random questions like 'Where is Satish Dhawan Space Center?' ... 'Capital of Mizoram?' ... etc. This keeps those human Chinese CAPTCHA solvers at bay.

I liked that when i joined the forum!

 

[ico]

Not reCAPTCHA, the standard phpBB captcha. And oh yeah it sucks.

well, then you know where the problem lies.

 

[dashing.sujay]

Are these reCaptcha and phpBBcaptcha breakable y botnets/ spammers ?

 

[ico]

Are these reCaptcha and phpBBcaptcha breakable y botnets/ spammers ?

I can vouch for the fact that default phpBB and MyBB CAPTCHA are easily breakable.

Earlier this year I was seeing thousands of Russian spammers registering. I googled and found that reCAPTCHA was cracked. I moved onto questions then.

 

[dashing.sujay]

ico intelligent admin