Administrative and Maintenance Tools - New Registrant Analyzer

Description:
At the forum I maintain these are the general measures taken to determine if a new registrant is a spammer:
- google username see if it has been used elsewhere and if it has been banned, if there are a lot of results, try searching using: $username vbulletin, or, $username phpbb, or $username forum
- go to domain of email address if unfamiliar
- google first part of email address
- google second part of email address if unfamiliar
- check IP on DNS Stuff

So, to make it easier for the other admins to check this information I wrote this which basically has quick links to get this information. Refer to the screenshot for more details.

In the contained zip file, import the product via 'Manage Products' and upload the rest of the file to their appropiate locations

After installing, you'd need to refresh the admincp/modcp area with your browser then look under 'Users' in the admincp, otherwise look under 'New Registrant Info' if in the modcp

changelog
0.1 - initial release
0.2 - make it work for both mods and admins (shows in admincp and modcp)
0.3 - use dynamic modcp/admincp variables, move 'New Registrant Info' under Users menu

NOTE: remember to look under Users when browsing in the admincp

[Mastar]

Thanks will make use of it!

[fci]

Originally Posted by Mastar

I see it in the Modcp but not the ACP, any ideas?

Did you look under Users in the admincp ? refer to the screenshot for details

[Diana Notacat]

Props for this!

[UbiqPhoton]

*edit* you already changed this - good job! Ok, one more suggestion then...

I get a lot of bots signing up, and my usual trick is to ban the email address, and then delete them (otherwise there would be thousands by now - over christmas they literally appeared like 30 a day)

Would it be possible (and this might only be in the admin version, I dont know) to have either a delete user button, or move to group, for easy mass pruning later?

Cheers

[fci]

Originally Posted by UbiqPhoton

*edit* you already changed this - good job! Ok, one more suggestion then...

I get a lot of bots signing up, and my usual trick is to ban the email address, and then delete them (otherwise there would be thousands by now - over christmas they literally appeared like 30 a day)

Would it be possible (and this might only be in the admin version, I dont know) to have either a delete user button, or move to group, for easy mass pruning later?

Cheers

sounds like a good suggestion.. that plus some of what The Finman said earlier is pretty good. have you noticed how many of the new users have their birthday set to March 28th?

[The Finman]

Bump.

[NeRilkA]

Hi,

i installed it for testing and it's great but i have an error for the date : it displays Y-m-d

can you help me ?

thanks

[Staxed]

Originally Posted by fci

sounds like a good suggestion.. that plus some of what The Finman said earlier is pretty good. have you noticed how many of the new users have their birthday set to March 28th?

are you planning on updating with said suggestions? (just curious)

[Sam1985]

I have a mailing program(mail blaster) that sends emails and tracks it.
Can I export a CSV file of users and their emails so i can send them newsletter and info using my system that accepts CSV imports?

thanks

[Nathan2006]

Thank you fci

This is just the right time I need something like this

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