[Zachariah]

Originally Posted by nexialys

same here... when you have more than 1% of your userlist in the ban list, that means you have a crappy forum that is not auto-moderatored... if you have 500 pages of bans, that mean you have an off-topic forum that grab all the crap from the internet to post on your site...

sorry, no matter how you deal with a forum, if you ban a user each time he does not post what you like, close your forum, close your computer, and go take a ride in mexico...

Not True.
- I have 1000's banned across many domains.
- Everyday month is better traffic than the last month, no harm there.
- I am the auto-moderator. When they post something stupid they are warrned, then banned if it proves a bot. When enough stupid people are removed it will be clean.

I make it easy, I tally where the problems are and ban countries of IP ranges.
Wow no more problems and no missed traffic as those countries offer my site nothing anyway.

There are millions of people that want to play nice . It's easy to prune and block.
- .2 % of my traffic gone, but 90% of my problems .... its alll numbers and math to me.

I removed 100 users and 75K posts a few weeks ago. It's almost a site again.