To a select bunch of countries? Say:
UK
US
Canada
Australia
Ireland
New Zealand
Or to, alternatively, ban sign-ups from specific countries?
Before you all go bonkers, there are three good reasons:
1) I am specifically targetting traffic from those countries.
2) Most of my spammers come from certain countries.
I have been watching Snipsly, SheToldMe and Best-Reviewer, the likes of whom I can realistically compete with, and note that they are particularly busy in India.
Now, I have absolutely no issue with our Indian friends, and if any of our Indian Hubbers ever want to sign up I would be extending an invite, but the best chance of reaching a US and UK audience is to have US and UK writers. The 1 cent Indian clicks aren't worth the bandwith and the minority who let them down aren't worth the google stress.
The spammers are about 70% chinese.
If I could do this, then I would probably start a second community, which actually TARGETS India.
Any ideas?
May I ask why you are asking this here rather than in the Wordpress forums? I suggest taking this question over there. That said, please select the right wordpress! Wordpress.org is only for those who have their own domain name and websites while the other wordpress is for those who blog without their own website. Thanks.
by And Drewson 14 years ago
I know this may not be popular, but since HubPages is being hit with so much spam, possibly from certain countries, I suggest that HubPages block the IP ranges where many of these spammers reside.Other sites have done it and it successfully dropped the amount of submitted garbage quite a bit. ...
by erinshelby 11 years ago
On a WordPress blog, if you insert a HubPages referral link (for readers to sign up for HP)...if you test the link to see if it directs readers to HubPages, do you get an error message?
by Richieb799 13 years ago
Some spammer keeps getting into one of my Wordpress sites, I'm using an older version of WP...I did enable it as an article directory where others could write but I've had to disable that. As far as I can see I've disabled any way of them logging in, I've changed my password.. they kept hiding...
by mandarine 15 years ago
i hate to see my email crowded with spams messages. i mark them as junk but they continue to arrive and arrive and arrive ...brrrrrrr.Doesn't anybody know how to escape?
by Tony Lawrence 14 years ago
OK, I heard the objections to my idea of no hubs/no forum posts and see the validity.How about a mandatory "Introduce yourself" post that has to survive not being flagged by X number of people in X amount of time and if they pass, they have access to every forum. Otherwise, no...
by Kenna McHugh 16 months ago
We've had a handful of spammers lately. Yes, it's not okay. Please report them rather than comment on their spam. I doubt the spammers even read your reproaches, and posting comments circulates the situation. Ideally, HP should evaluate their "new writers" better.
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