I've been banning Malaysian visitors for a year now and I've had very good results. Or more exact -- zero trolls. I was having a bad troll problem and 100% of them were coming from Malaysian IPs. I wasn't having any worthwhile contributing visitors from that country so the decision to institute a country-wide ban was easy. I encourage anyone to do the same.
ScrappyGoo, the Google News scraper is in RSS 2.0 and unlike Google's RSS offering, ScrappyGoo will always be ad-free. Google News will probably introduce RSS ads very soon -- as you have pointed out, they're already using their feed to drive traffic to their site.
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I've been banning Malaysian visitors for a year now and I've had very good results. Or more exact -- zero trolls. I was having a bad troll problem and 100% of them were coming from Malaysian IPs. I wasn't having any worthwhile contributing visitors from that country so the decision to institute a country-wide ban was easy. I encourage anyone to do the same.
ScrappyGoo, the Google News scraper is in RSS 2.0 and unlike Google's RSS offering, ScrappyGoo will always be ad-free. Google News will probably introduce RSS ads very soon -- as you have pointed out, they're already using their feed to drive traffic to their site.
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This list is over representative of American hedonistic interests. Wait... I made the C-list???? ... Keep up the good work, guys!
A big thank you to the admins at TMNet. You have finally made Malaysia one of the best at something.