Ghana - you're out

Posted on:July 31 2009

It feels strange to ban the ip adresses of a whole country, but this was the last resort to fight scammers on Bienen und Blumen, our small (german speaking) dating website. People from Ghana seem to generally use a I-Am-A-Soldier-In-Iraq-And-Found-Sadams-Gold approach. So the whole country Ghana is now blocked at Bienen und Blumen, joining Cote D'Ivoire and Senegal. What a pity. However, who cares. Our users are usualy from Germany, Austria and Switzerland only.

If it goes on like this, I will be able to do a small performance optimization to this ip-ban in a few years: Only allow german, austrian and swiss ips. :)

Comments:

s/the Swiss/Switzerland ;)

Michi

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2009-07-31 18:04:00

argl, thanks :)

niko

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2009-07-31 18:08:00

Did the right thing they are great nuisance, but if u will ban every other country except the 3 u said tehn u will lose europe and america, there are many german knowing people over there also intersted in germany

kinjalkishor

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2009-07-31 18:41:00

please do not forget Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, and Belgium...

Geoffrey

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2009-08-05 10:24:00

Yup banning only the troublesome countries seems sufficient, banning everyone for crimes of Nigeria is a bit too much.

kinjalkishor

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2009-08-05 18:32:00

There is craze in India also to learn German and French.

kinjalkishor

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2009-08-05 18:33:00

Guys, I think that banning everybody except Germany, Austria and Switzerland was actually a joke.