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organizer9:
I really appreciate this excellent software and the improvement we can see in the dedication of your developer community. I have a humble suggestion as a appreciative user of your software if possible for you, It's better if instead of insert name all await approval will be listed so we can ban directly from this list.

the risen is we would like to process quickly our member approval from awaiting approval list, this why this function will be very helpful to us.


MD

Kindred:
Ummmm....  You can already do that.

Arantor:
I think the option in question is to ban someone straight from the awaiting approval list.

If it's to ban spammers, it's largely a waste of time and energy because they'll just pick another user id and try again.

emanuele:
But if you can ban IPs too maybe...
Something like this but applied to the approval list...

CircleDock:
I use a combination of Bad Behavior, Akismet and Stop Forum Spam together with a function that strips dots from before the "@" in GMail addresses. Spammers get put into a special group with the same privileges as banned members. Keeping them in limbo prevents re-registration.

I've noticed that around 80% of the spammers we've identified use GMail and will attempt to create multiple accounts using the same actual address but made to look different by the insertion of dots in the account name portion. As far as GMail is concerned, "auser@gmail.com" is the same as "a.user@gmail.com".

Banning by IP Address is a very blunt instrument since most users will have dynamic IP Addresses - so could overcome the ban - and you run the risk of inadvertently banning others who share that IPA.

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