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I got one of those once. Had it for about 2 years and then they banned me without any explanation. How do I know they banned me? Because all profile related actions (login, logout etc) suddenly became a 404 for me and no results would be returned. The 404 issue was resolved as soon as I deleted my cookies, but of course at that point I could no longer login either.

I emailed them a few times and was ignored.

It was still a pretty good deal though.

We don't do bans like that so it sounds like there might have been a configuration/ network issue.

In that case, can you tell me why my account no longer exists? my username was 'mkoryak'. My account was created on

Mon, Jul 18, 2016, 9:38 PM

Your account got banned due to scraping of the website.

That's weird.

Edit: now I remember - I wrote a gm script to load multiple pages of results into a single page because I wanted to see 5 pages at a time. I can see why that looked like scraping.

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