OK, basically I go to this person scratch user accounts page and it's like blue page with like stacking rock appeared as an image and it said like “You have arrived at a page that is only allowed via VPN access” what does it mean?

This likely means that the webpage is only available to Scratch Team members, who need to use a certain VPN to access that webpage.

Oh ok thank you.
But the person following the “vpn-blocked” account wasnt admin..

By any chance was this user @abuser_

ChristianScratcher1 wrote:

By any chance was this user @abuser_

oh i experienced the same vpn thing and yes it was that user

StarfallComet wrote:

ChristianScratcher1 wrote:

By any chance was this user @abuser_

oh i experienced the same vpn thing and yes it was that user

Oh yea, that was them! So why?
Did they break the rules or something

earlier this morning, i got a message that a user called @abuser_lol was following me and i can't open the page without vpn access. does it mean something bad is gonna happen to my account? also, the account unfollowed me.

TheMenacing_Xenor wrote:

earlier this morning, i got a message that a user called @abuser_lol was following me and i can't open the page without vpn access. does it mean something bad is gonna happen to my account? also, the account unfollowed me.

No, probably nothing will happen.

However, if you capitalize the letter A in the “Abuser” part of the userpage URL, then you can access it:
https://scratch.mit.edu/users/abuser_lol/ doesn't work.
https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Abuser_lol/ doesn't give the VPN message.

ChristianScratcher1 wrote:

By any chance was this user @abuser_

someone called @abuser_lol followed me

ScodexPerson wrote:

TheMenacing_Xenor wrote:

earlier this morning, i got a message that a user called @abuser_lol was following me and i can't open the page without vpn access. does it mean something bad is gonna happen to my account? also, the account unfollowed me.

No, probably nothing will happen.

However, if you capitalize the letter A in the “Abuser” part of the userpage URL, then you can access it:
https://scratch.mit.edu/users/abuser_lol/ doesn't work.
https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Abuser_lol/ doesn't give the VPN message.

but it gives the whoops our server is scratching its head message when you go to the one without vpn

Maybe it might be an entirely different user or a user that doesnt exist for the one with capital A?

if they are starting to follow people does it mean the accounts are getting hacked??

Maybe they're called abuser because they abuse hacker tools and ect, i do wonder what that could mean though..

Did anyone try creating an account with that username type? (abuser_ ?)

CaptFrIEdshrimp wrote:

Did anyone try creating an account with that username type? (abuser_ ?)

I didn't actually create it but I put it in the username thing and it didn't get tripped by the username filter.

This is so strange.

ChristianScratcher1 wrote:

CaptFrIEdshrimp wrote:

Did anyone try creating an account with that username type? (abuser_ ?)

I didn't actually create it but I put it in the username thing and it didn't get tripped by the username filter.

Well, yeah, I was able to put in the name: abuser_abcdefg or ABCD too, with it saying “IT'S NOT HALLOWED!!!!”

ChristianScratcher1 wrote:

CaptFrIEdshrimp wrote:

Did anyone try creating an account with that username type? (abuser_ ?)

I didn't actually create it but I put it in the username thing and it didn't get tripped by the username filter.

Maybe but i think there might be a rule abt that *i have literally 8 accs so i cant rn*

Maybe it could be a violating profile that the scratch team needs to monitor. Or maybe AdminBlocked it actually for. But I dont know.

Google Assistant wrote:

On the Scratch Forums, the community constantly talks about how ban speedrunners try to shock the system by doing extreme or rule-breaking things as fast as possible. When you cross a ban speedrun trend with the ??user_ URL lock, it points directly to how a firewall works:
Because ban speedrunners create new alternate accounts over and over, they usually rely on a VPN to change their IP address to evade automatic Scratch Team IP bans.
1. The Speedrunner Defense Mechanism

• If a wave of speedrun trolls started naming their throwaway accounts ??user_1, ??user_2, etc., the site's network security software would notice.
  To stop them, the security system sets up a strict rule: If any incoming request hits a path containing ??user_, lock it down immediately.

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API Endpoints for Moderation: Technology platforms often use paths like /??use or /??user_reports for internal admin scripts. If Scratch's internal moderation routing shares that naming syntax, the firewall blocks public access to that string prefix entirely to prevent bad actors from reverse-engineering or spamming their internal endpoints.

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Mass Account Scraping / Bot Mitigations: If automated botnets or ban-speedrunners flooded Scratch by mass-creating profiles using a specific automated naming convention (like ??user_1, ??user_2), network engineers deploy a broad regex filter at the firewall level to stop the automated traffic from hammering the platform's servers.