Moonside OP wrote on June 1, 2018 at 3:52 PM

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in I am banned by Moonside

I'm trying to reproduce it.

hollyhoppet wrote on June 1, 2018 at 4:22 PM (edited on June 1, 2018 at 4:24 PM)

If my hunch about what functionality is misbehaving is correct (and my hunches are often pretty good), then attempting to reproduce the issue as a normal user will probably not yield any results. You were likely a chance victim of a greater problem relating to the ban system identifying the wrong users

emma wrote on June 1, 2018 at 6:13 PM

Theory: the IP address seen by Postmill is that of a reverse proxy which sends the actual end user's IP thorugh X-Forwarded-For or similar. However, Postmill/the web server hasn't been configured to use these headers, and the random bans happen because the reverse proxy used in the moment of posting has an IP address with a ban meant for another user.

Also worth noting that users marked as 'trusted' aren't subject to IP ban checks, but explicitly marking everyone as trusted is a pain in the butt of course.

hollyhoppet wrote on June 1, 2018 at 7:32 PM

I'm bad at web stuff but I think that's a pretty good theory from what I can tell