Does anyone know how it is possible that a forum has banned me even though I keep changing my Tor address? I was unrightfully treated by this place and I want to understand why my Tor is suddenly not good enough to get around the ban... It worked find before until they did something different recently and I don't know what it has to do with. I have been searching for all kinds ways to change an IP address on a MacOS 10.4 system and I can't find anything. I am using a neighbors WiFi so I don't want to go ask them to turn their modem on and off. What can I do?
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Somehow I was banned from a forum using Tor...
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How about accept the fact that you were banned for some reason and move on with life?
Dylan gave you the most probable answer, and it's your external IP address that you'd need to be changing, which shouldn't have anything to do with your computers OS or version.
Somehow I doubt it was just because of Tor alone. If you are getting banned repeatedly likely it has more to do with what you did to get banned in the first place than it does with sneaking back in using Tor while under a ban.
Either you were banned because you used a tor address which you use to mask your real ip and the site admins feel that type behavior is not appropriate for their site
or
most likely, you probably behaved in a way that was counter to the rules.
In either case, email the mods/admins and explain your situation, perhaps they'll let you in, once you stop using the TOR address.
or
most likely, you probably behaved in a way that was counter to the rules.
In either case, email the mods/admins and explain your situation, perhaps they'll let you in, once you stop using the TOR address.
They're a privately run forum. They do not have to share a reason for banning you, forums are allowed to ban whoever they want for any reason or no reason at all and don't have to explain a thing.
That's because you can't just change your external IP address like that.
Stop stealing your neighbor's WiFi and get your own internet connection so you have your own modem to turn on and off.
I would like to point out IP banning is pretty rare for a forum to do in this day of age. Reason for it is very few people have a static IP address and it to easy for people to changed their IP address to make the work worth it. Hell in banning an IP you are more likely to ban someone else than the person you are trying to block.
chances are they banned your SN, Email address and what not. If you want to go back choose a SN that has nothing to do with your last one and email address to match. Then lay low for a little while before you start posting and make sure not to ever get the 2 accounts linked up.
chances are they banned your SN, Email address and what not. If you want to go back choose a SN that has nothing to do with your last one and email address to match. Then lay low for a little while before you start posting and make sure not to ever get the 2 accounts linked up.
Come now, that's just mean.
OP, why not just start your own web forum? Then you can act how you want and nobody will ever ban you.
Hope this helps
