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by steve_taylor 1576 days ago
Wouldn’t it make a lot more sense to restrict this activity geographically rather than based on accounts’ language?
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masklinn 1576 days ago
What would be the geographic restrictions though?

“In ukraine”? Russian troops might be located there, also VPNs, and non-GPS geolocation is not exactly reliable (at least in my european experience where I’m essentially never geolocalised correctly and the subsequent localisation is always incorrect, any location within a few hundred miles of a border is a crapshoot).

“Out of ukraine or russia” would be trivially bypassed via a vpn as well.

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sam0x17 1576 days ago
No you misunderstand -- disable contributions where the contribution itself is located anywhere on the map in Ukraine. No VPN concerns there...
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