[CAG CheechDogg]

Just to add, this is Google's IP which is always crawling my site:

66.249.73.175

Baidu is 119.63.192.0 - 119.63.199.255 which I have completely blocked since I am not going to have any members for my video game site coming from China lol...

CHINANET Beijing province network 220.181.0.0 - 220.181.255.255 also one that I have completely blocked

This is one way to block Baidu in htaccess:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Baiduspider
RewriteRule ^.*$ http://127.0.0.1 [R,L]

People just have to know what all this does to. That actually consumes (quite a bit) more processing power than a simple block does, meaning more resources are taken up dealing with Baidu than necessary.

But since blocking Baidu on my site spamming has gone done to almost nothing. I had the last spammer on my forums over 5 months ago. I was also thinking of blocking Googles cuz I honestly don't care if they crawl me or not but it would probably not be a good idea in the long run.

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Originally Posted by Max Taxable

Yep, that's why sharing is indeed, caring!

I really have no idea why some boards get slammed with spam and others never seem to. It hasn't really been relative to how popular or busy they are, that I've seen. Like you, I have set boards up for people and they never see any spam, whilst others get spam hammered the first day! There's no rhyme or reason to it.

But definitely, having many torpedoes in the tubes to fight spam is preferred over relying on just one or two.

Yes definitely buddy, I just started fighting spam myself and went through searches and searches to see what worked for "Me", in the end this is what has worked for "Me".

But I do want to gain knowledge on how to help others since I do build sites and forums for others as a "hobby" ...

So thanks for that bit of info my Friend.:up: