I use every anti spam plugin there is and even developed one but the army of fakers and not honest people is still capable to sneek in (about 50% of the registrations). My biggest concern as admin is therefore to spot them as soon as possible and prevent them to harm the image.
So I recently decided to move to admin approval from email approval. There is one advantage to that, if you allow them and the profile still gives you reason to delete them, you can do that without them able to publish anything.
But since I did that, it made my job harder. I do not have enough information to make a good decision whether one is or might be a spammer/faker.
So I'd like to preview the profile, before making such decision. Is there someone who already made a plugin for this, if not is anyone interested in making it. I will cooperate and share the development effort with you if you bring some skills to the table as well.
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You must log in to post replies.If I remember correctly, I built in that feature into hypeApprove. I will be updating it to 1.10 shortly.
Ah, it would be awesome if you did, funny that you are not sure about it :-)
This one is resolved, I fixed it extending the validation view with additional information like brief description, registered location versus actual location and other relevant checks.
For new accounts, letting admins see the registration IP location on the profile (and account email) would indeed be handy.
Indeed, but I did some more. I made a web service a while back in my site to be able to return geographic information based on IP address (using GEOIP database)
The webservice itself can be queried using https://www.centillien.com/services/api/rest/xml?method=geo_info&ip=$ip_address.
Using this, made it possible to compare user registered location versus probable location (geoip). See view below:
Also added icon and description which are also very informative in most cases to asses misuse.