Restricting forum sign ups from specific countries

Beverly Level X³

January 8, 2014, 5:46 pm

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Do you have it set up so that your forum won't accept sign ups from members whose IP is from a specific country such as Russia or China or other areas of the world?

Or, is there a specific country that you have banned or restricted from signing up to your forum?

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Layla

Some forum owners have gone to extreme measures to forbid sign ups from various countries. But if your forum is international that's not a real option as it would also restrict real forum members from participating.

13 years ago

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angie828

I do to like this option. It is not really fair to do as I agree with Layla on this.

13 years ago

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Corzhens

In the years when my husband was managing the forum of their office website, he banned some countries that are notorious for spamming and scamming as well. I remember one country – Nigeria. Most of those banned were African countries. And it is only practical to ban those countries because the forum was in our native language so how can a Nigerian understand the contents of the forum? It is silly of them to even take the effort of registering

9 years ago

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