[Bradley_Wint]

Originally Posted by mustangt562

Even though when I look up their ip it says its from "riga, latvia" or "Kiev" or ".ru". Do search indexing robots come from eastern europe? Please support what your saying with facts. Otherwise reverse ip says eastern europe and NOT "googlebot...etc" and im playing it safe.

are you trying to be rude to me...or do you live in a bubble...are you saying the only people allowed to have search engines are people in the Western Hemisphere. There are a lot of search engines...you know when domains expire and you get the stupid search page...those are also real search engines which need to be backed up by a search bot...sometimes i get some weird pages crawling my site but it's just a bot... there are the few occasions when things are wrong,...e.g. DDOS...once on my old board, over 400visitors within the same ip range were visiting so I knew something was wrong so I banned them...but otherwise...leaving the bot to search your site is good. Also you can just use a Robots.txt file so they won't search unnecessary pages...I have attached one...it will reduce the number of visitors (bots) for one, because they only search the relevant pages...

I know there is a mod where you can ban users directly from the threads, etc..but not sure about direct interface ip bans...