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: The IP address belongs to Cloudflare, so maybe you are just using the same proxy as the spammer does --[[User:Urwumpe|Urwumpe]] ([[User talk:Urwumpe|talk]]) 02:35, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 
: The IP address belongs to Cloudflare, so maybe you are just using the same proxy as the spammer does --[[User:Urwumpe|Urwumpe]] ([[User talk:Urwumpe|talk]]) 02:35, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
 
::The filter hasn't let me in for a few days, so hopefully I can save this. Anyway, I think I figured out a couple of things. First, it seems Verizon has only so many IPs (Iv4), and isn't interested in buying more (Iv4 are gone, they would have to buy Iv6), so they have an internal MAN, and we all share the few IPs at the gate to the internet, so that's how some of us could have the same IP. Searching OribterWiki, I could not find a Cloudflare user, nor could I find any logged entries. Doing a DuckDuckGo search, the only reference I found was Cloudflare.com (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare Cloudflare at Wikipedia], which some of its clients seem to be less than desirables, so maybe something came from there and got my IP involved. But, I'm thinking more along these lines: about the time I was blocked I had fixed some double-redirects, then I was working on the listing 'Uncategorized pages'. Almost all of them are spam pages, I was adding them to the ''Category: Articles Nominated for Deletion'', and adding a couple of real pages I found to good categories. Then I was blocked. After being unblocked, I was again working the uncategorized list again, this time I created a ''Category: Spam'' moving pages there hoping to eliminate spam pages so I could find good pages better. Got blocked again, and here we are now. I think maybe the filter was thinking I was spamming when I was moving them to a spam category, makes sense in its point of view. So, I think I may have gotten myself inadvertently blocked with good intentions. If I can't be unblocked, the 27th is only a few days away, but I think I'll let those spam pages alone in case that's what did it. In my research, I have found how may bogus users are created daily and how many spam hits you get, so, it must be a nightmare for you every day just battling the bad guys. I would be very surprised you it doesn't drive you to drink heavily or something like that. Just thought you'd like to know that there are about 12900 spam pages on the uncategorized list and maybe a small handful of real articles there. Later, I'll try to search the good ones out and get them on good categories then what's left should be the bad stuff. Thanks, [[User:Arvil|Arvil]] ([[User talk:Arvil|talk]]) 04:00, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 
 
:::Well, what should I say... If I give up now, the best would be shutting down the wiki completely. We really need a smarter solution than the IP blocks, if they are abusing Cloudflare for spamming us. Sadly, I can't even notify Cloudflare, that a customer is violating their TOS. --[[User:Urwumpe|Urwumpe]] ([[User talk:Urwumpe|talk]]) 11:56, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
 
 
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|style="vertical-align: middle; padding: 3px;" | For helping to repair this wiki and especially for fighting the bot-wars over the years.[[User:Arvil|Arvil]] ([[User talk:Arvil|talk]]) 10:49, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
 
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