Banned myself?

[uvhlboards]

Forum URL: uvhl.proboards76.com

Somehow I managed to ban myself after banning another member in my forums. I chose to ban them by IP Address and Email Address and now I can;t login as the administrator or do anything else for that matter. And we do not have the same ip address either.

[Snakeair]

uvhlboards said:

Forum URL: uvhl.proboards76.com

Somehow I managed to ban myself after banning another member in my forums. I chose to ban them by IP Address and Email Address and now I can;t login as the administrator or do anything else for that matter. And we do not have the same ip address either.

Since your email address is banned you'll have to wait for a proboards.com admin here to unban you. If you can somehow contact anther staff member at your forum by email or Instant messeger the could unban you. Bump your thread in 24 hours is no staff has replied here to unban you.

[Aaron]

By default if you are the main administator you are prtoected from email and username bans you could only be banned by ip i think thats how it works anyways /

[kapt]

asa201 said:

By default if you are the main administator you are prtoected from email and username bans you could only be banned by ip i think thats how it works anyways /

Not quite correct. As main admin, he cannot be banned by other members for an IP ban. He can however ban himself by IP, and other members with the power to ban could add his email information

Kapt~`'-

EDIT: Other members could ban his IP if they got the number from someplace else

[Tommy Huynh]

The main admin is immune to username and email banning. But not IP, which can be fixed by logging in from another location or by a staff member here.

[Bob Dammit]

Check your PM's, I have sent you some help

[kapt]

swg2 said:

The main admin is immune to username and email banning. But not IP, which can be fixed by logging in from another location or by a staff member here.

You sure about that Tommy? Say you and I were sharing an email account and another staff member banned your email on my board. Wouldn't that affect me as well?

Kapt~`'-

[Tommy Huynh]

I know I remember Martyn posting in support that the main admin is unaffected by username and email ban, only IP.

[kapt]

Works for me then

Kapt~`'-

[uvhlboards]

Still no luck on this one. I tried going to that place you reccomended Bob Dammit but when I got there and back into the forums, tried to login, told me I had to register with them in order to continue and I'm not willing to fork over any amount of moolah just so I can login to my own forums again
I could go to a friends house I suppose and log in there but there has got to be an easier way to fix this isnt there anyone I can contact directly and have them unban me? (And yes this is most definately a newb type question I can feel the grrr vibes from some already so my appologies!

[Martyn Dale]

Username and email bans wont affect the admin, since you know for a fact that email and username are that of admin

IP's however may not be, they could be the IP of someone trying to crack the admin account, so ip bans need to stay in effect


As for the thread, if you are the main admin, PM me a link to this thread, the forums URL and the password chosen when the forum was 1st created

[Martyn Dale]

I have cleared the ban

[uvhlboards]

Thanks for the help much apreciated!

[Martyn Dale]

Not a problem

[image4you2see]

Don't feel man the same thing happened to me as well. Banned a pain in the arse person and he had 3 different ip's with 3 different names and 3 different email accounts.

So happened on ip matched mine. Confused the crap out of me..