Can't we just IP ban India already?

[Travis B]

There are posters from other countries that do far more annoying things than posting spam threads. Should we IP ban those countries too?

[grexly75]

Few things,

1) if you ban India they can just sit behind a proxy.

2) if you make it so new accounts can't create threads then they will just shit up existing threads.

3) The only way to really solve this is by newly created accounts have to be approved by a mod before they can post/create threads. This way if an account looks like spam, into the trash it goes.

And I can already hear, "But Leo, that would give a huge amount of work to the mods!"

And you're kinda right, so here's my response....

Fucking good. Now we can be sure they're doing something more than just being bias and infracting people for little to no reason while ignoring others.

Looking at that list yeah the only real way would be option 3, and yeah would be a headache but would also stop those being banned creating a new account and continuing with what got them banned in the first place..

[Zelk]

Can we ban every ip other than mine so I can yell into the abyss in peace

[XDurionX]

Banning 800M people because of 2 spammers, that's reasonable.

[Puupi]

Can we ban every ip other than mine so I can yell into the abyss in peace

In a way, such feature exists on MMO-C.

[Justpassing]

Well yeah obviously we can't just do that I guess. Sorry about the rant - not having a great day

[Grokresh]

Banning 800M people because of 2 spammers, that's reasonable.

1.3 billion at least but yes great plan

[slime]

Where there is no work and millions of poor people in over population, work will be made-up.

[Shakari]

How about using CAPTCHA like all the normal sites?

Usless as its not bots... its actual people.

[Tennis]

I know I'm going to sound like a dick but this black magic shit spam has been going on for almost six hours so far and it isn't stopping. I care beacuse I tend to keep up with recent forum posts tab and it's always this baba shit. Don't you guys want to save the moderators some time and effort?

That's incredibly racist dude and against ToS.

[Tziva]

• We have real users from India.
• These spammers are not all from India.
• Then they'd just use proxies.
• CAPTCHA is something we have already on this site but many of these are humans and not bots.

We hate spam as much as y'all do (maybe moreso since we have to be the ones to babysit and clean it up), but this isn't a viable option.