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CloudFlare settings: Please don't use aggressive settings for RSS #23

Open uazu opened 6 years ago

uazu commented 6 years ago

You're using CloudFlare to host the blog RSS, and CloudFlare are blocking my access to it from my server IP address with a CAPTCHA. This is likely to be because you have things set up too aggressively.

Background: CloudFlare uses ProjectHoneyPot to get a 'reputation' score for an IP address, and I've been all week trying to resolve what appears to be a false positive against my server IP address from ProjectHoneyPot, most probably (from the tiny amount of information available) due to someone spamming links to my website, although even that much is unclear. The symptoms are various RSS feeds getting blocked with a CAPTCHA. Neither CloudFlare support/community nor ProjectHoneyPot have really been helpful. People have only suggested various workarounds (like get a new IP address). The experience has been more than a little Kafkaesque.

uazu commented 6 years ago

The reason I'm raising it here is that CloudFlare support says I have to get the site owner to fix it. We must not question the hallowed algorithm, instead we must all submissively work around it.