High-risk ip.

Now and then i get this orange bar at the top of the site that says that my ip has been found as high risk and that i need to log in to use the site.
 
What is this about?

High risk IPs are IPs that are listed by Spamhaus or some other services we check with as having hosted or currently hosting open proxies or other potentially-malicious software/network tools. We’ve had serious issues from IPs that have been hijacked in the past - this is effectively a barrier to easy automated attacks on the site. There are two sets of lists - one which is a bit over-twitchy but catches the most problems, and which can be avoided by simply logging in to an account - and one which is only really dodgy IPs (Tor exit nodes, for instance) that require an administrator to add your account to a list of trusted accounts before you can do stuff.
 
So that’s why. We do seriously need this in a an FAQ area of the site or something, I know. Sorry!

Yeah, we totally need that in the faq area. I was freaking out with that message.