More proof that Chinese traffic is crap.
I block most all Chinese visitors from my sites. Especially Baidu bots as they just consume so much bandwidth scraping from my sites for no good reason.
Really? Exactly how is that done? I have spent lots of time asking my server provider how that is done and they always say impossible since there are tens of 1000s of Chinese IPs and the list is contantly changing too. They claim there is no way to block a specific country. In fact, there are a few other nations I would like to block if only it can be done.
A couple of thoughts:
Require moderator approval of the first x number of posts for new members,
or
Require mod approval of posts containing html for gold members, or maybe for their first x number of posts.
or
Perhaps easier - create a new (limited) membership level for members with under x number of posts, then elevate them to gold after they reach that number. Maybe a scrap metal level?
In an effort to get more members to the community, we had a promotion last month for Gold members. (Adam can confirm this!)
What was the promotion. My brother has been wanting an account for a while...