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Title: Proxy blocking forum sponsor PIA?!? Post by: BitMarket Square on April 20, 2014, 06:39:05 PM So I recently turned on a friend to Bitcoin and he just registered here on this site. He is a Private Internet Access customer and when he registered his account was automatically blocked. It says he has to pay a fee to post on the site because he has 2.8 evil points or something, just because he was using a VPN.
So Bitcoin.org is blocking the customers of one of its sponsors and forcing them to pay money to post? Is PIA aware of this? I understand there is a spam problem and the site owners can do as they please, but doing this to a sponsors customers doesn't seem like a good idea. Now my buddy thinks all this "Bitcoin thing is a BS scam". Title: Re: Proxy blocking forum sponsor PIA?!? Post by: tysat on April 20, 2014, 06:59:59 PM It's because someone using that VPN exit server got banned or nuked. Have him try connecting to a different server and registering or posting.
Title: Re: Proxy blocking forum sponsor PIA?!? Post by: BitMarket Square on April 20, 2014, 07:04:41 PM I understand why it is happening, but to force him to pay a fee because someone else got nuked/banned etc is ridiculous. He shouldn't have to reconfigure his VPN do to this. This sites owners need to handle this better, especially since they are banning their sponsors customers.
He has notified PIA, I'm curious to see what they say about it. Title: Re: Proxy blocking forum sponsor PIA?!? Post by: SaltySpitoon on April 20, 2014, 10:43:03 PM I understand why it is happening, but to force him to pay a fee because someone else got nuked/banned etc is ridiculous. He shouldn't have to reconfigure his VPN do to this. This sites owners need to handle this better, especially since they are banning their sponsors customers. He has notified PIA, I'm curious to see what they say about it. What alternative solution do you have to prevent people from registering hundreds of accounts, getting all of them banned and continuing to make more accounts through proxies/tor? The Fee to unban the IP isn't to allow people to buy their way out of bans, nor to raise revenue, its to prevent just what I said previously. Title: Re: Proxy blocking forum sponsor PIA?!? Post by: BitMarket Square on April 21, 2014, 12:48:31 AM Is PIA ok with it?
Title: Re: Proxy blocking forum sponsor PIA?!? Post by: LordOfCoin on March 02, 2015, 06:48:06 PM On PIA for me, the amount was for 20 evil points asking for btc valued at 20 cents currently. I know it isn't a lot, but why so much evil for the sites sponsor?
Title: Re: Proxy blocking forum sponsor PIA?!? Post by: hilariousandco on March 02, 2015, 06:53:53 PM On PIA for me, the amount was for 20 evil points asking for btc valued at 20 cents currently. I know it isn't a lot, but why so much evil for the sites sponsor? See this: It's because someone using that VPN exit server got banned or nuked. Have him try connecting to a different server and registering or posting. Kudos for searching though. 20 cents is very cheap compared to some of the fees tor users get. Title: Re: Proxy blocking forum sponsor PIA?!? Post by: Quickseller on March 02, 2015, 10:08:28 PM I had previously registered close to 50 accounts, of which none of them had enough units of evil that they needed to pay, all while using PIA (this was back in ~July 2014). Now more recently (less then a month ago), I tried to register a newbie account to catch a scammer in the act via PIA and was asked to pay a fee to post/PM; I elected to turn off my VPN and create a new account and did so without being asked to pay a fee.
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