[Jafo232]

Originally Posted by hornstar1337

How do you know that the account signed up is going to be a spam bot or not? Because when I look at any spam bot that has spammed viagra, computer sales, TVs etc. They truly look like a legit user until they start spamming weeks later.

This will not tell you 100% that someone is a spam bot, however it is no secret that vast majority of forum spammers come from places like Russia, etc.. This mod will determine the country of the IP address, and if you have not white listed that country, it will put it into moderation so you can approve it.

My motivation to write this is because of one forum I run that is a local forum for a small area in NY State. It makes no sense for people from Saudi Arabia or Russia to even want an account there. At first I was just going to outright deny registrations to these countries, but figured for prudence sake, to put them in moderation just in case there was a false positive.