Randomly temporarily banned?

[Steeldancer he/him]

So I was going about my normal 17th shard business when suddenly I went to view a post again and the site said I was... banned? I went to Google and back to the Shard and I was still banned. So I cleared my history to automatically sign off, and reloaded the 17th shard, and I was fine. 

What the heck happened? I was just viewing posts (and I briefly panicked that I had somehow become the next Zucchini or something) and that happened. Does anybody know why it happened? Why would it tell me i was banned? 

[Chaos he/him]

That's weird. No bans have occurred to my knowledge in the past while, so you're certainly fine there.

The only thing I can think of is some sort of dynamic IP happening to be an old IP that we banned before, however, clearing the history and doing what you did wouldn't really change that. So I don't really know. I'll investigate but it seems odd. 

Sorry about that

[Steeldancer he/him]

1 hour ago, Chaos said:

That's weird. No bans have occurred to my knowledge in the past while, so you're certainly fine there.

The only thing I can think of is some sort of dynamic IP happening to be an old IP that we banned before, however, clearing the history and doing what you did wouldn't really change that. So I don't really know. I'll investigate but it seems odd. 

Sorry about that

It's ok. I'd be more upset if it was permanent for some reason. I would have emailed you if that had been the case. 

If it happens again I'll let you know. 

[Sparkrunner he/him]

[email protected], right? I saw that somewhere...

[Chaos he/him]

Yes, or you can tweet or FB message us.