Why are foreign members being so problematic recently?

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by Markost

Block them. And if they insist, release the banhammer.

Blocking them is pretty much the same thing as banning them. We have the choice of how long a Block is in place. Usually an INFINITE block is considered a permanent BAN. Sometimes members who are douchebags get a temporary ban. It's funny, SOME of them learn their lesson, behave and do well, some come back after a temporary as bad or WORSE. Those guys get the permanent Banhammer rather quickly.

It's the guys who, out of the blue, create an account and then create havoc on purpose who are hard to filter out.

Which (a real world example) is why terrorism is hard to stop when we have free flow of travel between countries. We can't stop EVERYONE from traveling EVER, but that certainly would eliminate any attacks from foreign travelers to any country. But it's not a solution that is tenable.

[PersonOfInterest]

Originally Posted by MoviePropMaster2008

Blocking them is pretty much the same thing as banning them. We have the choice of how long a Block is in place. Usually an INFINITE block is considered a permanent BAN. Sometimes members who are douchebags get a temporary ban. It's funny, SOME of them learn their lesson, behave and do well, some come back after a temporary as bad or WORSE. Those guys get the permanent Banhammer rather quickly.

It's the guys who, out of the blue, create an account and then create havoc on purpose who are hard to filter out.

Which (a real world example) is why terrorism is hard to stop when we have free flow of travel between countries. We can't stop EVERYONE from traveling EVER, but that certainly would eliminate any attacks from foreign travelers to any country. But it's not a solution that is tenable.

Running a website and running a country are not all on par with each other.

[MoviePropMaster2008]

Originally Posted by PersonOfInterest

Running a website and running a country are not all on par with each other.

You have a gift to see things, not as metaphors, like most of us, but as really ridiculously simplistic black & white views of the world.

Reminds me of the guy who says to a corporate CEO, "if you don't want to have to fire employees who steal company property, then simply don't hire people who would do such a thing!" Wooooooo! Amazing that the rest of humanity never thought of such a thing!