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Ask HN: How can I get unbanned?

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So, someone posted this on HN. Do NOT click on the link hooked to the post. hxxps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8676812

Basically it's a jsfiddle with loads of img tags linked to HN causing loads of requests. I didn't think when clicking, and my home IP got blocked. Emailed PG but I know he gets tons of emails and not sure if he'll even see my message. How can I get my IP unblocked?

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From http://www.ycombinator.com/contact/ there's http://www.ycombinator.com/faq/#q45 which says to check https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4761102 which describes how to unban yourself using the following URL

  http://news.ycombinator.com/unban?ip=<ip address>

Thanks, this did the trick!

Seems.. Useless...

It should be noted that PG stepped down from running HN 8 months ago:

http://blog.ycombinator.com/meet-the-people-taking-over-hack...

Send an email to hn@ycombinator.com (it's the "Support" link at the bottom of the page).

Thanks!! I didn't notice that, email sent!

1. Visit google.com

2. Search for [how can I get unbanned from hn]

3. Click first result

4. Do what it says

Had this happen to me once when I opened my browser and it loaded a bunch of HN tabs. I browsed through a proxy for a few days and then eventually my ip was not blocked anymore.

Aw, now I'm really interested in seeing what the jsfiddle was, but the post got killed... :(

All it did was request 5000 user pages with common English words for names.

Everybody whose IP got banned because of this should now be unbanned. If not, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll take care of it for you.

Here's how I did it: http://newslines.org/blog/an-apology-to-giraffes-and-hacker-...

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