Hmmm, OK, the IP... You can block partials, IE. 112.232.122.*** Ect, you a wildcard. I had this issue, and it annoyed me to hell. Good Luck, Mike
Thanks for sharing this. I was looking for a .htaccess like this. Can I modify so that I can redirect the page that I don't want them to see according to country? On your forum, give moderator access to an honest member, one member who is active during the day, and one member who is active at night. Two moderators for every category.
Account validation method i've found works well with these n00bs especially on VB forums, they will eventually get fed up of trying to register and move onto the next forum. ip range ban will do no good, they can easily use a proxy. Usually these n00bs target forums which are not updated to the latest version of the software, so if you can it may be worth upgrading your forum software to the latest version.
why the hell would you block russia, your racist, those are the countries that first come into your head? I want to access that site and im surfing from russia!
I'm not sure he meant it as a racial remark, you should be careful about making such accusations. There is a valid reason why he would want to ban countries like china or russia is because a lot of forum spam activity comes from accounts under a .ru domain , if you encounter spammers posting porn or software type spam chances are it will originate from russia or china, beleive me i'm not being racist or anything this is from experience and has happened on my forum and another I administrate and it's always the same type of email domains EVERY single time.