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I think I'm kinda done with it... and this is really a "Are there any real members of the forum, who contribute good stuff (that isn't exclusively classifieds), that justify not blocking Ukraine?".
Nearly all of the comment spam on the site comes from Ukraine.
Nearly all of the attempted fraud comes from Ukraine.
Nearly all of the classifieds that are viewed as suspicious (stolen goods) comes from Ukraine.
Nearly all of the malware and web threats comes from Ukraine.
I already have Ukraine set up as "challenge", which means that people accessing from Ukraine have to pass a web captcha each time they visit the site. And that has made a significant reduction on comment spam, but the weird classifieds stuff still gets through, and I still have to deal with that.
This morning I banned someone for cross-posting, spam, SHOUTING... and that he was in Ukraine and the provenance is very questionable, prices too good to be true, and requesting bank transfers just didn't help him try and argue against it. That conversation ended with me being called a racist... so yeah, I'm kinda done with dealing with that stuff.
So this is a: Does anyone have a really good reason not to just null route all Ukrainian internet traffic into a black hole?
Classifieds are not a good reason.
I'll accept other reasons, i.e. there's at least 1 great user of the forum that isn't flooding the place with shitty classifieds and is based in the Ukraine.