[kevinh]

Great idea. I've been blocking CIDR ranges but it's a never ending battle. The whitelist will work much better for us as we run a couple of professional forums for the Australian market. We're not really interested in posts from other jurisdictions because they are not relevant.

We do however get heaps of comment spammers from India, Pakistan, China, Vietnam and one or two other countries. We don't seem to be on the RU spammer's radar yet

We currently moderate first posts, but what I suspect are paid SEO spammers are getting very clever. They make detailed posts about complex topics which read like genuine posts. Fortunately they almost always trip up some way or other which raises our suspicions and we check the IP.

Frankly I would rather just stop them from registering in the first place.

The irony here is that often the products that these spammers are promoting are often US or UK products. My guess is that these companies are buying SEO services and are unaware that they are paying for comment spam.

Perhaps we need a public "name & shame" list for companies who's products or services are being promoted in our forums by comment spammers?

Installing now ....