Would I get banned if I use Tor Browser to log in to Trisquel forums?

There are two antispam measures that affect Tor users:

1 The web server checks your ip against the Http:BL black list to deny or allow the site to be browsed, but the most usual TorBrowser useragent is explicitely whitelisted, so it should work.

2 Then the registration form also checks against a different blacklist (stopforumspam), so you may get stopped there. If so, requesting Tor to use a new identity (in the vidalia panel) usually does the trick. You may need to do this more than once if you are not lucky.

Once registered, you are just checked against 1, and as explained if you use TorBrowser it should work (don't use anything else to browse Tor!). If not please contact through the development list or the contact form.

On 05/09/13 17:12, 438963 wrote:
> Some online forums ban Tor IP addresses. Apparently some people use
> Tor to send spam or do other malicious activities.

No. I use Tor and I haven't been banned yet. :-)

However, a few days ago Rubén added a new spam countermeasure which has
automatically blacklisted some Tor IPs. Not all though. There are two
ways around it:

1. Use "New Identity" to get a new exit node that hopefully won't be
blacklisted.

2. Rubén set it so that if you are using the latest Tor browser
user-agent then it will ignore the blacklist.

Andrew.