Given the recent increase of spam registrations, it would be nice to have more flexibility in spam prevention and add the ability to block a 'TimeZone' and not just a 'Country'.

• Blocking an entire Country is too heavy handed

• 80% of recent spammers come from one single TimeZone - at least on our site

• Since TimeZone is a field that do exist for each member, it should be possible to add that filter in Spam Prevention/ Geolocation settings

Thank you

PS: I would be curious to know from sites that see an increase of spam, what Timezone they see from these spammers

Using timezone may be very unreliable; it's a value fetched from a cookie and in no way secure. Once a spammer knows the software supports something like that, it would be trivial to spoof the timezone.

2 minutes ago, Stuart Silvester said:

Using timezone may be very unreliable; it's a value fetched from a cookie and in no way secure. Once a spammer knows the software supports something like that, it would be trivial to spoof the timezone.

I can assure you 80% of of current spammers come from a single TimeZone . It's not 100%, but blocking 80% of them would be nice.

17 hours ago, ntxpla said:

I can assure you 80% of of current spammers come from a single TimeZone . It's not 100%, but blocking 80% of them would be nice.

They do at present, but we dont check for it. The second we do, they would simply change it, and its very very easy to do.