Probably a bug. Especially considering you’re still posting lol.

Could you link me a screenshot of what indicates you’re banned? It’s an issue we’ve potentially seen before and it would help me out a lot.

Also if you suddenly can't post, link that screenshot to me in #meta on the just_post discord

I'm trying to reproduce it.

but probably the issue resolved itself. It seems like it was only on this (/f/just_post) forum.

honestly I thought that my Pikachu post was so bad I got benned.

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

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.

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