Steam Blocked Sign in to my forums

[Arctic Tortoiseshell]

Hello, I run a sadly, very small Garry's Mod community. I recently added a forum for my community. One that uses steam to sign in. That way, it can reference you in game. I just took some time today to check up on it, only to find out that when I click "Sign In" I get the phrase

"The URL you are attempting to log in to has been blocked by our moderators and staff. This site may be engaged in phishing, scamming, spamming, or delivering malware."

Why? A lot of servers use that system, so is it broken now for all websites that use that system? Or am I unlucky enough that some user was angry enough to try to hit us hard?

Can I contest it? Am I screwed by the "Almighty powers of Valve?" If so, what now?

I am running Prometheus, a system you can buy on GmodStore.

Thank you all.

-Skeeter

[RGX12]

If you're using a shared hosting account to run your site, there could be 50-100 other sites on the same server. One of these other accounts could have engaged in some questionable activity, which led to the IP address being blacklisted by Steam. This is just one of several possibilites, of course. To get a precise reason, I'd suggest you contact support about this.

[Arctic Tortoiseshell]

How would I go about that? I looked around, and can only find very broad topics. Also, I only bought the code for the server, I am running it on a server, that granted, has other websites, but not under the same url. Could it be the IP address then? That would make sense.

[RGX12]

The server can have dozens of sites, all with different domain names of course, sharing 1 IP. If just one of those sites was sending out massive amounts of SPAM for example, it could lead to the IP being blacklisted.
You can use a tool like this to check who else is running from your server's IP:
http://viewdns.info/reverseip/

As far as who to ask, sadly I can't answer that as I don't know. But since you said you're using the Steam authorization API for your site, you had to get information about that (as well as a key) from somewhere, right? There should be more information there. Otherwise try searching Steam's help pages (regular and developer), or even a regular search engine.

[Arctic Tortoiseshell]

Well, there's definitely others on my host. I expected that. I just now need to figure out what to do to fix it. I'll send some support tickets into steam tomorrow. I'll reply if I get anything or need any further help.

[BossGalaga]

Originally posted by -=NSG=- Major Skeeter:

Well, there's definitely others on my host. I expected that. I just now need to figure out what to do to fix it. I'll send some support tickets into steam tomorrow. I'll reply if I get anything or need any further help.

Get a different host. Or don't use openID.