When we get more abuse from a single IP address than we do legitimate traffic, we really have no choice but to block it.

If you don't think you did anything wrong and don't understand why your IP was banned.Īre you using a proxy server or running a browser add-on for 'privacy', 'being anonymous', or 'changing your region' or to view country-specific content, such as Tor or Zenmate? Unfortunately, so do spammers and hackers. IP bans will be reconsidered on a case-by-case basis if you were running a bot and did not understand the consequences, but typically not for spamming, hacking, or other abuse. If you are responsible for one of the above issues.

Running a web bot/spider that downloaded a very large number of pages - more than could possibly justified as 'personal use'.Automated spam (advertising) or intrustion attempts (hacking).Your current IP address has been blocked due to bad behavior, which generally means one of the following: