If you were going to stop users from certain countries registering on a forum ie. to avoid spammers, which countries would you block?
If you were going to stop users from certain countries registering on a forum ie. to avoid spammers, which countries would you block?
Will the answers not be "racial" or "discriminatory"?
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they'd be my top dogs.
- east asia(china, etc.)
- africa.
and not stereotyping because they're black or anything, but just thata ny website that i will make in the near future won't be aimed at that market, and also that them countries have the highest level of phishers and spammers.
I suppose the happy-clappies will complain but they can go fsck themselves because they are not paying the bills. Sysadmins tend to have a nuclear mindset - if a country is causing a problem, nuke it. If you can't make that decision without hesitation, you've no business being a Sysadmin.
Regards...jmcc
Last edited by jmcc; 07-09-2008 at 06:46 AM.
Instead of banning certain countries, why not go to the flip side of the discussion and only allow entry to the countries that you are targetting for the site.
On my dating site the scamers are mainly coming from the ivory coast and nigeria also through Turkish proxies. Some isps turn a blind eye to it apparently.
I also win the lottery about twice a day recently and its always coming from holland.
Its a tough call blocking a country as you also block genuine people. You would be better of denying the IP ranges of known spammers, isp's etc. Google for htaccess lists.
Remember that party poker ad with the African tribesman kicking ass? He's not going to be happy if he can no longer get his online gambling fix.