I get lots of unwanted registrations from Romania and Poland and many others. How can I stop that?
GoranAnders if you use that method it can result in blocking legitimate users. There are better ways. 7 years ago
Anthony@Goran Not if your users are NOT from those countries wishing to being blocked! For example I do not want any country that has no interest apart form spamming forums and compromising sites. Russia|Croatia|China|Korea|Romania and Poland, but to name a few.7 years ago
GoranI still think it is bad idea to block entire country's because of few moron spammers. For example I am in Serbia and if you block for Example Croatia I will be blocked also tested this several times. What I have did I have implemented Project Honeypot in cooperation with few spam tools available on my hosting. Since than I had no issues.7 years ago
GoranAlso we are in 21 century why block entire country? 7 years ago
GoranWhat if I want to become user in Anders site for example etc. Internet has no boundaries. 7 years ago
AnthonyYou don't block all of them indefinitely, you create a GeoIP blocked IP list to create your own customised blacklist from the resultant logs. Then unblock the countries under scrutiny to return normal services to that country, that's if your site community even caters for the countries you wish to block. Anders was quite specific in the two he wanted to block.7 years ago
GoranStill think that is not a solution. Also we have to deal with dynamic IP addresses in most cases. But again it all depends on user and what he want. Important thing is that there are multiple options for managing this. 7 years ago
AnthonyDefinitely! Mine was but one suggestion with an effective end result, to block a whole country or continent (by choice) if and when required. You have yet to inform us of your suggested method of preventing "unwanted registrations from Romania and Poland" as Anders asked.7 years ago
GoranOk mr. Z give me some time and will post manual in my group here for all to benefit.7 years ago
AnthonyI'll be your first subscriber! Here's my complete manual: START | WING IT | THE END 7 years ago
AndersGawin! Thanks for your answer, but where kan I get this "recapture"?7 years ago
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