I recently took up the practice of banning certain IP addresses from the forum. I cleared the IP ban list yesterday as a member was having difficulty logging in. I will however, be rebuilding the IP ban list as I go along. If the indication is that the IP address is a BOT, as indicated in the photo above, then that address will be banned.
If you do encounter any difficulty logging in, use the 'contact us' box on the front of the forum and I will sort it out. If it says that it is because of your IP address, please ask google what your IP address is and let me know. Please include your user name in your 'contact us' message to me.
I had already disabled direct registration because BOTs and webcrawlers now know how to register on a forum. They always fail the security question miserably (naming the group 'Slade') and chuck in garbage random text. I normally ban their IP address and email as a matter of course. The nonsense user names and email addresses are a dead giveaway. But when you're getting 50 registration attempts a day, it's just a pain in the arse.
I HAVE RE-OPENED REGISTRATION, BUT IT NOW REQUIRES AN EXACT ANSWER IN THE Q&A FIELD.
We will see how that pans out.
If you have any queries, either PM me or use 'contact us'.
Cheers,
Ian
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