Mysterious banning for spam has hit again...

I was just notified that one of our members got banned for spam and he didn't spam (never has) and I DIDN'T ban him.
Remember last summer when it was happening to a few people????

Well it's happening again and while I have banned a couple of spammers....it wasn't this member.
I checked the moderator log to see if someone else had maybe done it....I checked the past 2 weeks worth of logs and his banning isn't listed. This is like what happened to Zonker and a few others last summer.

So if you can't log in....and it says you are guilty of spamming and you know you are innocent....I didn't do it.
Anytime any moderator takes any sort of action it gets put in the log along with who, what and when.

This is above my pay grade.....going to have to notify IT department again.

If one does get banned here, how can you get unbanned? I got mistakenly banned once a while back in a different forum and fortunately I knew one of the members outside the group that I was able to contact and have him contact the forum mod to un-ban me.I don't know anyone here that I could contact outside this group.

Grumpy48 wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 06, 2025 7:35 am

If one does get banned here, how can you get unbanned? I got mistakenly banned once a while back in a different forum and fortunately I knew one of the members outside the group that I was able to contact and have him contact the forum mod to un-ban me.I don't know anyone here that I could contact outside this group.

Well......maybe use a VPN to log in?????? That's what the most recent victim is doing.

As I already explained....if I didn't do the banning then I can't do any unbanning even if you did/could contact me.

Frustrating I know....believe me I understand this fact but I don't have a direct ear to the IT people....I have to ask Carolyn to contact them.

I realize that if you don't ban spam, the blog will become useless. However, any method of flagging users (manual or automatic) is prone to error and needs to have a means to correct the errors.

D.H. wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 08, 2025 2:19 pm

I realize that if you don't ban spam, the blog will become useless. However, any method of flagging users (manual or automatic) is prone to error and needs to have a means to correct the errors.

WOW I didn't know that. Thanks for the reminder.