The_Fire_Horse's Journal: Careful - Total Slashdot IP Bans

I go to the front page to see that my PC is suddenly banned from seeing anything in Slashdot.
----- BANNED! ----
Either your network or ip address has been banned from Slashdot

...due to script flooding that originated from your network or ip address -- or this IP might have been used to post comments designed to break web browser rendering. Or you crawled us with a rude robot, especially one that doesn't understand RFCs very well.

If you feel that this is unwarranted, feel free to include your IP address (x.x.x.x) in the subject of an email, and we will examine why there is a ban. If you fail to include the IP address (again, in the subject!), then your message will be deleted and ignored. I mean come on, we're good, we're not psychic.

If you think your IP number is different from x.x.x.x, tell us both.

If you are using a browser with some kind of add-on that crawls or caches pages for you, tell us what it is.

Since you can't read the FAQ because you're banned, here's the relevant portion:

This is odd, seeing that recently I have been posting normally to try and get my karma out of the dirt (ok - I did ONE first post which got modded offtopic - no big deal!)

The only thing I can think is reading the trolltalk sid (seeing that crapflooder has resumed there are 4500+ comments which makes firefox struggle) - perhaps Taco thinks that is a script 'haxing his box'.

What a pain in the neck - my only option is to browse and post using TOR (which as we all know .... makes for some interesting crapflooding). Well done Editors - drive the remaining trolls who are happy just to READ trolls by pissing them off further into using tools enabled for major crapflooding.

Or maybe I should email him and grovel to get my IP unbanned .... hmmm, I am not sure if it is worth the effort.