Administrative and Maintenance Tools - Moderate New Registrations Based On IP Geographical Origin

Original 3.7 mod here.

This mod will put any new registration into moderation so you can either approve or deny based on the physical location of the IP address. If the IP is located in a country that you white list, the registration will go through as normal.

This may be different for everyone else, but on my forums, I have yet to have a Russian IP sign up for anything other than posting SPAM. This plugin has moderated them all!

I hope to have time to eventually expand this to do other things.

You MUST download the zone files from this site:

http://www.ipdeny.com/ipblocks/ (download the "all files" file)

The free license does not allow me to include them with the product, plus it is better to download the latest files anyway.

No real screenshots to show here, sorry.

Changelog:

12/20/2008

• Coded the routine in, instead of using external whois program.
• Now compatible with Windows
• (39 download of 1.0) (3.7.x)

2/11/2009

• 77 downloads at this point (3.7.x)
• Rewrote application to use zone files rather than relying on Arin

To upgrade, READ THE README, and re-install product (select overwrite).

Don't forget to:

CLICK INSTALL!

[Jafo232]

Listen you little imp,

GeoIP is about as important to me as the booger you just ate. I work with API's that make GeoIP look as small as your penis. Go back to work at your fastfood joint and leave programming and server administration to the professionals.

The shared hosting I speak of is from the thousands of installs a level 7 vb coder has to support. Where are you on this list? Oh, you're not even on it.

I DONATE my time to make mods. All you do is talk smack and develop NOTHING. You're opinion does not matter.

[furnival]

Great mod, many thanks.

Here's a country code list for Western developed countries only and their associated overseas territories, in case anyone else has a forum that is predoiminantly frequented by people from those types of countries:

AU,AS,GU,JP,DE,DK,FR,FI,NZ,PH,SG,TH,AG,BS,BB,BM,CA ,MQ,PR,KN,LC,US,UM,VG,VI,ZA,BR ,FK,AN,BE,HR,CY,CZ,GR,IS,IE,IL,IT,JO,KW,LB,LI,MC,M S,ML,NO,PL,PT,ES,SE,CH,GB

[Cyburbia]

Worked for a few weeks, but now having problems.

I've got Austria in my whitelist (AT), yet registrations from that country are moderated.

China, Vietnam, Pakistan and Sri Lanka are getting through, despite not being on the whitelist.

All zone files are current, installed in the proper location, and world-readable. Valid country codes are all properly separated with commas.

Nice concept, but it's not working. For many of us, a blacklist of countries would work better than a whitelist, especially considering that there's certain countries with a reputation as being forum spam friendly (China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Vietnam, Philippines, Belarus, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nigeria)

[Lee G]

I have used this mod for several years and love it
Stops most spam from even being seen
Is there any way of making it compatible with cloudflare

[trifive]

I installed the mod, it had only us and ca could join, an hour after install I get anew spammer 91.207.5.198

That is from Ukraine

How can I fix the problem

Thanks

Otis

For any advice

[Bellsy]

THanks for this. I sure hope it helps.

Dave

[ETDC]

I'd like to install this but what actually happens when a registration is put in Moderation? Is the forum Admin notified by email?

I'm assuming that this kicks-in after the registrant's email has been verified?

Also, once you approve the user, are they then sent the forum 'welcome' email or do we need to do this manually?

[ETDC]

Anyone?

[djbaxter]

Originally Posted by ETDC

I'd like to install this but what actually happens when a registration is put in Moderation? Is the forum Admin notified by email?

This add-on doesn't do that. All you need do is go to the home page of your AdminCp to see whether registrations are in the moderation queue. What I did is color moderated registrations orange (i.e., using usergroup markup) so they stand out on the forum index page.

I think there are also other mods here at vb.org that will send an admin email for users or posts awaiting moderation.

Originally Posted by ETDC

I'm assuming that this kicks-in after the registrant's email has been verified?

Correct.

Originally Posted by ETDC

Also, once you approve the user, are they then sent the forum 'welcome' email or do we need to do this manually?

It's sent automatically like any other registration.

[ETDC]

Many thanks. Installed.