12-27-2018, 01:17 PM
The amount of attempts to register has shot up this Christmas holiday, not quite sure why but its up to 20-30 a day at the moment, they are all bots, or spammers pushing viagra or some other nonsense, its much more than the usual 3-5 I normally get per day. Some are even braving the delayed moderation forum, where its possible to post, but I clean them up most evenings.
This means I need to get a bit tougher with them, rather than just refusing to activate I'm starting to ban their IP's, its a bit more time consuming but it should reduce the traffic as they tend to come from a few stock IP addresses (nearly always Russian).
Its very very unlikely that a genuine request to join will get stopped by a banned IP, but if it does, (and I am hoping the ban doesn't stop you reading this), just locate my email on the main site and let me know. I promise I'll un-ban you and get you on the site as soon as possible.
This means I need to get a bit tougher with them, rather than just refusing to activate I'm starting to ban their IP's, its a bit more time consuming but it should reduce the traffic as they tend to come from a few stock IP addresses (nearly always Russian).
Its very very unlikely that a genuine request to join will get stopped by a banned IP, but if it does, (and I am hoping the ban doesn't stop you reading this), just locate my email on the main site and let me know. I promise I'll un-ban you and get you on the site as soon as possible.
