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Not Quite On Topic: Reporting Spammers w/o Opening Spam Threads?

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pwhodges:
I think Ben bans whole ranges, not just individual IPs; and he has noted that a substantial majority are not merely in China, but in a single province.  Anyway, we leave that to him.

est:
At the moment we have maybe 30 IP ranges for China banned, and honestly I think that if I could get a definitive IP range list for China & Russia I'd probably just get rid of both entirely, because 99% of our spam and 0% of our actual membership base come from those areas.

Instead I have installed an add-on that checks in with a forum spam reporting service and marks certain people as possible spammers when they sign up.  These members are then required to get manual signoff before they can activate their accounts.  There is another add-on along those lines that I am looking into, but it requires some planning before installing.

est:
Paul has pointed out a great site for looking up IP ranges, but the legwork for entering in everything manually restricts me from making full use of it for now.  I'll be looking into ways of entering IP ranges in an automated fashion, then perhaps we can take care of it.

bhtooefr:
#1, I thought we had at least one active Chinese member?

#2, if your web browser supports easily turning images off (for example, Opera has that,) it at least prevents the image from loading from the spammer's server, although it still increments the thread view count.

Is it cold in here?:
If you mean Akima, she lives in Australia.

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