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| Feb 14, 2016 at 13:04 | history | edited | Andrew Lott | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 14, 2016 at 12:05 | comment | added | user52244 | I am not banning valid users. The list I use blocks known spam bot ips. It is updated daily and false positives can apply for whitelisting. Also, the majority of ips that are blocked lie in countries I don't provide content for anyway (e.g. China), so I'm not concerned with false positives. -- As for captchas, I want to avoid them. There are reports that comment numbers drop after introduction of captchas, forced registration or verification emails. I want to keep my forms open to all, if possible, and using this list to block spammers has reduced my spam to zero in the past three years. | |
| Feb 14, 2016 at 11:15 | history | answered | Andrew Lott | CC BY-SA 3.0 |