# We've detected abusive activity on your IP address (trying to register for a new account)

**URL:** <https://discuss.write.as/t/weve-detected-abusive-activity-on-your-ip-address-trying-to-register-for-a-new-account/19343>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [August 27, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/weve-detected-abusive-activity-on-your-ip-address-trying-to-register-for-a-new-account/19343 "2025-08-27T16:03:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![binen](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@binen](https://discuss.write.as/u/binen)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/weve-detected-abusive-activity-on-your-ip-address-trying-to-register-for-a-new-account/19343/1 "2025-08-27T16:03:00Z")

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Good morning.

I am trying to register for a pro account. When I made my first attempt to set up an account, I was given no feedback, and taken to a new post page. I clicked in the top right corner and found the anonymous sample post I had written a few hours previously. There was no further feedback and no verification email, so I tried to register again, and that’s when I started to be caught by the “abuse filter”. I don’t really understand what went wrong there, but am sure I made it worse by trying again! I would very much appreciate some help registering from an account, preferably from somebody who can unban my IP address for the crime of I-have-no-idea-what.

In [this post](https://discuss.write.as/t/attempting-to-register-but-get-error-weve-detected-abusive-activity-on-your-ip-address/5884) and [this post](https://discuss.write.as/t/weve-detected-abusive-activity-on-your-ip-address/8798), other users have the same issue as I have been having. I tried to comment on one of these posts rather than start a new thread, but I then got shunted into “your posts need to be approved”. Since then, the bots have been sending me notifications about how I need to make new posts. I think you may have an unintentional catch-22 there. Frustrating experience so far, the usual “prove that you deserve to exist on the internet”, not a good look, and most people who want to give you a monthly subscription fee would have given up by now, it’s only because the fediverse has limited options that I’m still trying.

Thank you.

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**Author:** ![matt](https://discuss.write.as/user_avatar/discuss.write.as/matt/32/2760_2.png) [@matt](https://discuss.write.as/u/matt)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2025, 8:12pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/weve-detected-abusive-activity-on-your-ip-address-trying-to-register-for-a-new-account/19343/2 "2025-09-04T20:12:49Z")

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Sorry for the trouble. We do have some pretty heavy-handed automation in place for certain situations, and it seems like you might’ve bumped into that. I just sent you a private message that should help!

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**Author:** ![binen](https://discuss.write.as/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@binen](https://discuss.write.as/u/binen)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2025, 2:46pm UTC](https://discuss.write.as/t/weve-detected-abusive-activity-on-your-ip-address-trying-to-register-for-a-new-account/19343/3 "2025-09-08T14:46:18Z")

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Thank you Matt!