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by achillean 1718 days ago
We don't do bans like that so it sounds like there might have been a configuration/ network issue.
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In that case, can you tell me why my account no longer exists? my username was 'mkoryak'. My account was created on

Mon, Jul 18, 2016, 9:38 PM

Your account got banned due to scraping of the website.
That's weird.

Edit: now I remember - I wrote a gm script to load multiple pages of results into a single page because I wanted to see 5 pages at a time. I can see why that looked like scraping.