Thanks, I'll let you know if it happens again. My IP shouldn't have changed since the ban message happened, though. It seems to be a random occurrence.
Maybe I misclicked something while on mobile? I find myself accidentally going to the global ban page more often than I’d like since on my phone it’s often right below the “reply” button
This is probably not the reason. You'd still have to accidentally enter a ban reason, accidentally hit 'ban', then accidentally go to the ban list and accidentally remove my ban to cause what I've been experiencing.
My only guess is the site's setup results in invalid IP addresses being sent to the ban check function, and for some reason it gives a false positive. I can't replicate this locally, though, would have to look more into what Heroku(?) does.
Presidential_Afro wrote
it was p bad tbf