If you ever find yourself "inexplicably banned", or unable to access CathInfo, you know how to contact me, right?

Take a guess. My name is what?

matthew

What is the name of this site?

CathInfo.com.

Put those 2 things together: matthew at cathinfo.com

A few points:

1. I'm not going to ban anyone out of the blue. If you have no idea why I would ban you, trust me: I have no idea either! hahaha
2. I always give you a warning, unless you're brand-new and an obvious troll/troublemaker.
3. Everyone on CathInfo now is a member in good standing, so something would have to HAPPEN before I'd ban any of the current members.
4. Occasionally, my script to block bots, Chinese hackers, etc. catches good people in the net. If this happens to you, it will be manifested by not being able to access the website at all. KEY POINT: You also won't be able to visit other websites I host on my server either, like www.chantcd.com

So if you're simply banned from CathInfo, you'd still be able to access my server. But if you can't access chantcd.com, then your blocking has nothing to do with CathInfo at all.

5. Think about it: you haven't just been banned from an e-commerce site! So check ChantCD.com to see if it's a server-level IP address block.
6. I'm not some unstable madman. If you only posted a recipe for cookies yesterday, or an innocent comment like "Yeah, I sure hope Biden doesn't win the election!" and then you find yourself unable to access CathInfo the next day, it doesn't make sense that you were banned, does it? Obviously you weren't banned. You must have gotten snared in a false-positive by my anti bot blocking script.

Computers and software are rock stupid, they don't understand anything. The idea of a super-intelligent AI is the most ridiculous thing to a guy who deals with computers and software every day. You have to tell them Every. Little. Thing.

Several members were just accidentally blocked when they clicked on the profile for user "Admin".

It was basically a false positive for my malicious user blocking tool.

I fixed it just now, but I'm grieved that it happened, because it doesn't happen that often. I try to be super careful about what results in a block.

This is why I need CathInfo members to have my e-mail address in their address book -- or their brain.

If a block or a "ban" doesn't make sense -- it's probably because it wasn't intentional. You need to speak up when something like that happens. Not just for your sake, but for many other members' sake as well.

Thanks!

Have you read this thread yet? If not, PLEASE READ IT. I don't want any CathInfo members accidentally banned, and not know how to contact me.

P.S. There is another place you can meet online if CathInfo is every down (or unavailable to you alone): the Facebook group "SSPX Resistance". You can contact me through that venue. But it's easiest to send of an e-mail to matthew at cathinfo.com if you ever have issues.

Bump!

I want to make sure the recent decrease in CathInfo member traffic is organic, and not caused by some script error.

If you ever find yourself blocked from CathInfo, PLEASE EMAIL ME.

matthew @ cathinfo.com


I note that this thread has only been read 1832 times, and that counts duplicates. Duplicates ARE possible when a thread gets another post, and someone re-visits that thread. But if a thread stays stagnant with 5 posts, for example, it wouldn't matter how many times you hit refresh -- only one visit would be counted.

A lot of those 1832 hits are duplicates and guests. And so, I fear that many members still haven't read this message!

Another point:

If CathInfo seems to be down, it's 99.9% going to be some technical issue -- an upgrade that resulted in Apache not running, or the permissions on the PHP executable being incorrect. Yes I know that's technobabble for many of you, but the point is that if CathInfo is down, it's a technical issue and I need to be informed of it. You need to memorize my e-mail address: MATTHEW at CATHINFO.COM. Shouldn't be that hard to remember

CathInfo isn't going to be taken down by anybody. I'm self-hosted, so there is no one to contact to have CI taken down. It would take something apocalyptic and hard to pull off: like a government action (think: swat team) or a lawsuit (which you're not going to get Pro Bono, so you'd need some deep pockets, especially since it would be a baseless and frivolous lawsuit: CI is not exactly guilty of anything. Guilty of political incorrectness DOESN'T COUNT. That only gets you "CANCELLED" and I can't be CANCELLED (made infamous, unpopular, "can't get a job in this town", can't star in any more hollywood movies, excommunicated) as I said. This isn't Germany, and right now so-called "anti-semitism" for example isn't against the law.

P.S. I would point out that CathInfo hasn't been shut down by anyone since it started in 2006. So there's that bonus argument of long track record as well :)

EWPJ,

Please see the other thread I created to answer your question. I moved it there.

Is there still an "ignore" feature?

So, apparently, I had an old email for you.  I sent you an email earlier this morning because I couldn't open the site.  When I checked the "Is it Down Right Now?" website it said it could not access it/that the site was forbidden access (vs just being "down").  Odd.

I sent an e-mail to matthew@chantcd.com ... but perhaps that's not the right one to use.