Jeraz0l

Most likely because he was trying to block the IP at a point where it was forwarded by some other service. At that point, the offending IP would only exist in the x-http-forwarded-for http header and not as the source address of the request.

Thanks for your feedback. I'll leave it up to my colleague to answer your two main points. Just wanted to answer the last couple of questions you had.

The reason it redirects to the homepage is that for now, you need to be logged in to see any content. We intend for anonymous uses who haven't logged in to be able open direct links to posts, we just haven't gotten around to implementing it yet :-)

If you tried to register using why-el as a username, I see no reason why you shouldn't have been able to do that. We'll have a look at the rules we've set for username and see if we're a bit too strict with what we will or will not allow. And, yes, none of us are native English speakers :-)