Today, we both were at two different work places, 50 miles apart! I use my work WiFi, wife uses hers...both triggered on second try this morning...something changed on your site's side for this to have happened AGAIN!
So it must be the faucet abuse detection system. The way you claim the faucet must be a very similar pattern to the way the botnets do it.
This makes NO Frikin sense! If "IP IS BLOCKED" -- then it should work on any OTHER IP ADDRESS...you are blocking our USER IDs!!!