Prevent Certain Timezone Registration
 

Description:
This mod prevents certain timezones from registering.

Request:
https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=134529 & By PM

Installation:
All the installation information is in the package.

Changes:
1 Plugin
7 Phrases

Change Log:
15/06/2011 - Version 1.2
- Fixed Redirect Option

16/09/2007 - Version 1.1
- Added Redirect Option
- Added Admin CP Option Error Checking
- Updated ReadMe Style

9/03/2007 - Version 1.0
- Initial Release

/me Reserves

Thanks! OK, spammers! your turn.

Bill

cool to see you have made it, however nothing that a proxy cant get past and then it is just letting potential good members not have access in the future from those time zones. Maybe it will have a use for someone tho.

Just out of curiosity, what's the logic behind disallowing certain time zones from registering?

lol...

why not have it like you can only register to this site during business hours.

9AM to 5PM

That makes more sense to me than disallowing an entire timezone from registering, lol.

I dunno, it was a request, I merely fulfilled it :p.

Installed. Thanks a lot for this mod. It's super simple to install, and works wonderfully. I've been getting hit hard by spammers lately who register with a -12:00 timezone and this mod does it's job in telling them to f*** off!

I had to go into the XML document and customize the text that I wanted displayed to the spammer. Maybe the next version you release can have a section to put in a custom message?

THANKS!!

That's the only Time Zone I have had problems with. All the Spammers reg from there!!

:up:

Well, all I can say is that I feel sorry for people living in that timezone who want to register...

You could've just modified the phrase. I made it phrased so people could have a multi-lingual forum.
Same here :p.

Have seen the comments asking why. All I will say is that it works like a charm and solves a big problem with spammers. If you don't have the problem, don't install it. For the rest of us poor souls, thanks for doing this.

Bill

Awesome, my forum is local, dont want any members from wherever that is anyway, thanks

All they have to do is choose another timezone.... It doesn't stop them from registering.

This is mainly for preventing bots.

Thanks........

Many thanks for this - my spam problem has virtually disappeared since I installed it. I know it is only a matter of time til the spammers catch up, but for the moment, you are saving me a *whole heap* of time tidying up!

Paul.

Same here, since I installed this no bots have registered, Thanks again :)

Can you provide an option to change the default message user gets when they are banned.

Just edit the phrase 'invalid_timezone'.

If you want to use this on 3.5.x, in line 16 of the XML file, edit:

to be:

Installed. I am getting tons of spammers signing up from -12 so I hope this helps!

Thanks for your efforts dismounted.

Excellent Mod. Easy to use and it seems to stop one specific infamous spammer.

Bloody Awesome! Saves me a bunch of time. Let's hope it takes a long time before they catch up on it.

I have a suggestion. How about, instead of telling spammers they need to find the right time zone, instead, if they are in the banned time zones, the registration stops and redirects them back to the forumhome page. Keeps the bots in an endless loop.

:up::eek:

As stated by me in other threads, I'm going to start updating my modifications (finally ;)).

Hack Updated!

16/09/2007 - Version 1.1
- Added Redirect Option
- Added Admin CP Option Error Checking
- Updated ReadMe Style

That's so mean to do but the spammers have it coming to them. Thanks!

I had a similar but different strategy when I implemented this hack, I changed the error message to the same message as a successful registration ;)

Installed...

I have been trying to find a complete set of tools to address this problem and I have a post about some of what I have learned here:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=158544

I have one site that I was not working on as it was slow and in about 2-3 months time the spam bots killed my small community. I got the site cleaned up but now I am out to learn more about their process to keep them out... I welcome the help!

Great hack!

I just set it to -12, changed the phrase to "** Thank you for Registering **" and send them back to home page.... :up:

I find that 90% of all my spammers come in from that timezone and don't change it.

Thanks :)

Regards,
Badger

lol... same here... have not had one new spammer since.

THANK YOU.

This was becoming a major problem on my site. I'm glad to see there were others who walked before me and found a solution!

all my spam came from the same TZ.

sure beats a full manual management! I was physically deleting users daily!

I've just installed and done exactly the same.
Hoping to see a marked difference, it was becoming more than a nuisance!

Many thanks Dismounted.
(marked as installed)

Looks like an awesome mod. I am using 3.5 and tired of bots.

Can you make this work with 3.5 please? Thanks

In the plugins, find all instances of and remove:
It should then install on 3.5.x with no issues.

thanks man, you da man.

This is great!!! Thanks....this solves my problem.