Should the good also be punished?

I do think that a country-wide ban on people being able to access a site is not only wrong but extreme. However, I have read where some other sites have "had" to ban entire countries to try to correct the spam problems. The reasons given were that the handful of countries that were banned were responsible for a large percentage of the spam (something like 80%), so banning the entire country was easier to do in the short-term to reduce the amount of spam. Then, they were going to take care of the rest of the spammers individually while trying to isolate the majority of the spammers in other countries before lifting the ban on those countries.

[i]Thank you allknowing,for your kindheartedness.. I am an Indian,but I think some Indians spam.I have seen this is in many forums and chat,they are forced to ban the IPs from India...I have fell victim to this a lot. I feel very sad,and feel that I am racially discriminated.I curse myself to have born in a poor country with insane people. THIS IS NO PRO SPAM... Indians are spamming because,they don't get any response for the question and discussions they post,because it will not have the desired quality,coz of all grammar mistakes.English is really the third language we are learning.We started to learn A,B,C in 5th standard.So you may say "why are you taking so much trouble,why do you post?";Thats a good question..I think you know the answer too.. But its no reason to spam.Those who spammers should be punished.. If you are outside US,UK, Canada and Australia,you are not going to get any surveys. (Even if you are largest consumer group in the world).The reason behind this is ...we people buy cheaper products without quality checks,unlike the 'developed citizens'.So there is only one Mantra for selling products in India..'substandard product at cheap prices'.Companies are the same,but products are different...A packet of Lays here contains all the bad virus infected potato.Government will give ISI and Green mark,if their pockets are filled. So its not racial discrimination thats causing the trouble..I don't think people care about race anymore.Its really the discrimination based on money.I mean poor or rich!! However you are not going to prevent these spammers from entering your site,just by banning Indian IPs.These guys will use fake IPs,to get into those sites and do there thing.[/i] Sorry if I used strong language,I wrote my emotions..not even checking for gramm errors!!

Racial discrimination for instance is universal. Just as during the time when the whites believed they were above the black race and the Germans superior over any other people..

Should the good also be punished?... Just want to answer this query before going into details. All I know is good got reward and bad will be punished. Well, sometimes it made me think and ask myself why I was born in this 3rd world country. If we just have a choice we won't let ourselves live in a place where there's so much discrimination in any ways. Banning specific country is not good knowing that not all people on that certain country are bad/good. Wherever we go we can always encounter people who are good and at the same time bad. It all depends on us on how to deal with them. Happy mylotting!

Hi allknowing, I had read many such complaints as Indians get banned in programs in online acts. It is not alone Indians, the list includes other Asian countries like Indonesia, Philippines, and most times China too. You know well they would give the reason as the cheaters are more from these countries alone. My views are they just want to suppress the speed of the work done as most of the people in these countries want to earn more in short time (and it is due to our economy). If most of us are running so fast they could not able to run the site for long and in the last they give the name that these countries have more spammers than others.

Hi friend, sad to hear about this, some sites are geo targeted and getting members from some particular countries, it doesn't mean the country members are scammers, but the site don't get any benefits by getting members from that country. Every one is looking for their profit, so only the site don't take members from India. We are not spammers, a lot of sites give opportunity for Indians, let join with them to prove yourself

It is a known fact that discrimination is still there all over the world. But I still wonder, why people make such discriminations so evident? They make it obvious by banning the country instead of that concerned spammer. I agree with you. Are there not any spammer in those un-banned countries?!

what are the other countries which are banned? i am from the Philippines and I wanted to join iwriter too. I hope they do not have a ban on my country. Hmm.. In my opinion, there is a certain type of discrimination going on here. It is as if they think that those banned countries are not good in english and are spammers. They feel like we do not have the capacity to produce good articles and thus, they ban the country so no one is allowed to join. there are a lot of good english writers coming from these countries and they are not even looking at the potential in these countries. This is just sad.