Comment by MetaWhirledPeas

> whitelist IPs instead blacklisting

I think I agree with this. There will be difficulties though:

- Will likely have to be pay-to-play. No point in whitelisting IPs if you are bombarded with whitelist requests by a bot.

- Will come with the assurance that any bot traffic will result in an IP ban.

- Will rule out people with dynamic IP addresses.

- Will be difficult to gain new users.