webmasterworld.com block Chinese visitors?

I can not access from China

[guoqi]

I back to China last Saturday, I tried to access here, I always got an 403 Forbidden or Apache test page. I thought here was down, but actually it wasn't By remote control a server in America, I am still able to access this forum.

What does it means?
1. Webmasterworld block visitors from China by itself?
2. Chinese government block Webmasterworld.com

[vincevincevince]

Perhaps it was this [webmasterworld.com] front page thread which did it?

[workingNOMAD]

I got that when I was in Indonesia. I thought the site was down for ages but was confused as nothing had been reported anywhere else about ww?

What's the story with Asia and this site?

[Brett_Tabke]

It could be an isp with a specific proxy that has hammered us in the past. I know we have so few .cn visitors, that when one tries tos pider us, we usually block the B block.

[guoqi]

Ok, I am back online now. You actually block the biggest ISP in China.

I arranged multiple internet connections at my office now, I can switch between those gateways. If you block 1 or 2 of them, I will always still be possible to access here.

[phparion]

the spider can be from a Chinese search engine, or they tried to scrap data from WebmasterWorld?