Cross reference user check

[TimberFloorAu]

I would like to see a gadget / mod within VB that when a member signsup, we can cross reference that username across the web ( not just google it ) but across all vbulletin boards etc.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

And how would this gadget access the userlists of all the vB forums?

[TimberFloorAu]

If I knew that Marco, I would create it. But then I am not smart enough.

However, you and thousands of other forum owners, must see this as a case:

User signs up.

So you think, hmmm... wonder who they are.

Nip onto Google, type in their username, and baddabing, they have joined 128 forums in the last 2 days, and not posted on one of them.

As a forum, we dont want members, we want active members.

There must be a way, or perhaps, if myself and couple of coders that worked for us, set up a 3rd party bad member database, this could be proved useful? I dont know.

[Alfa1]

I dont think most admins and their users would be happy with such a feature.
Sharing spammer information or even permanently banned trolls would be good though.