New Member gets 'Banned' message.

[Rob in NC]

Not sure who to reach out to with this.  I engaged a newbie on another forum and told him about the GTA.  He attempted to access the site and got the message that his IP was banned.
He is from Montana and has never heard of GTA so unless an IP range was banned, not sure how he got caught up.
If someone can reach out to me, I do have his IP so that we can get him signed up and ready to go.
Any help appreciated!

[ezman604]

On our homepage you can always click on the Contact GTA Forum Administrator tab. Anybody can do that, member or not, to report issues.
Send me the IP address in a pm and I'll take a look. Tell them to make sure and NOT use a VPN or proxy server to register. Many of these are banned due to known and reported spammer use. After the registration is complete, they can once again return to using a VPN connection if they want.

[dan_house]

Not sure who to reach out to with this.  I engaged a newbie on another forum and told him about the GTA.  He attempted to access the site and got the message that his IP was banned.
He is from Montana and has never heard of GTA so unless an IP range was banned, not sure how he got caught up.
If someone can reach out to me, I do have his IP so that we can get him signed up and ready to go.
Any help appreciated!

been issues in the past with folsk getting "banned" when it was nothing about them...  Have your friend try it on his tablet or computer.....

We need more Montanans on the forum! Bozeman here!

[ezman604]

Sometimes you get this message if you are using a VPN connection. Some of these have been identified as connections used by spammer/scammers and are therefore banned. Sometimes these messages can be cleared by simply clearing your browser cache. Dunno exactly what the issue is with this one since the IP address he SAYS he is using is not banned. We'll figure it out though.

[Walnut92]

New to the forum, and similarly having problems as I use a VPN for security reasons.

It requires me to disable my VPN every time I visit GTA, clear my cache of GTA cookies and re-login.

Then of course turn VPN back on when finished.

Two questions:
 1. I can see the reason to 'ban guests' who are on black-listed  IP addresses, but once registered why would I need to face this challenge?
 2. Bit surprised that my VPN supplier (a well-known and paid one!) is black-listed. Or at least ll their IP addresses are...

[oldpro]

New to the forum, and similarly having problems as I use a VPN for security reasons.

It requires me to disable my VPN every time I visit GTA, clear my cache of GTA cookies and re-login.

Then of course turn VPN back on when finished.

Two questions:
 1. I can see the reason to 'ban guests' who are on black-listed  IP addresses, but once registered why would I need to face this challenge?
 2. Bit surprised that my VPN supplier (a well-known and paid one!) is black-listed. Or at least ll their IP addresses are...

We have strict requirements for people to be members here as we are under constant attack from bots/spiders and the chinese and russians scamers as well as others so we must be able to see your REAL IP to assure your not one of these scammers. Nothing Personal

[Ronno6]

We have strict requirements for people to be members here as we are under constant attack from bots/spiders and the chinese and russians scamers as well as others so we must be able to see your REAL IP to assure your not one of these scammers. Nothing Personal

I have been using a VPN since last December with no issues. Recently I did a "clean reinstall" of the VPN and my prior servers were no longer on the list.
Seems that routing me thru a server in a different city caused this site to block me.
When blocked, the "Contact the Administrator" is not an option.

Having read this topic, I cleared cookies/cache and, with the VPN not connected, all is good (Except in MS Edge...still blocked, but I don't use it anyway.)

[oldpro]

We have strict requirements for people to be members here as we are under constant attack from bots/spiders and the chinese and russians scamers as well as others so we must be able to see your REAL IP to assure your not one of these scammers. Nothing Personal

I have been using a VPN since last December with no issues. Recently I did a "clean reinstall" of the VPN and my prior servers were no longer on the list.
Seems that routing me thru a server in a different city caused this site to block me.
When blocked, the "Contact the Administrator" is not an option.

Having read this topic, I cleared cookies/cache and, with the VPN not connected, all is good (Except in MS Edge...still blocked, but I don't use it anyway.)

Really  Happy you have it fixed Ron!