Another of my simple little mods that saves me some time, thought I'd share. I occasionally have a small group of troublemakers attempting to sign back up under aliases, so I have my forum set up to require admin approval of new registrations. If a new person awaiting approval looks suspicious I like to check out the geolocation or ARIN whois of their IP, send them an email asking for more info or Google their email address. This adds those options to the Registration Queue tab under member manage in the admin interface. If anyone knows of a better IP geolocator that lets you pass the IP in a query in the URL, lemme know.

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I always comment these things as "hacks", I don't know if I should call them "hacks" or "mods", but in any case, there ya go.

PS: I just realized that Gizmo has a similar thing to link IP addresses next to a person's post in showflat. I added a link to his domaintools info page, too.

hehe was about to comment on the last line before it poped up; what exactly do you want via ip triangulation? I have a boatload of services...

thank you for sharing

Well, luckily my most problematic forum stalkers live in out-of-the-way cities, so a quick view of a sock-puppet's IP location usually tells me who it is. I also just like to keep track of trouble makers using various metrics in case they develop into problems later.

If you ever have a moment, maybe posting a list of useful info gathering sites like that would be helpful. Maybe I'll add in my own and code them all into a crazy little "info overload" css-controlled popup div for admins who want to be able to dig up lots of info on troublemakers with the push of a button.

By the way, for me in Firefox it only shows the first two lines of the code, unless I click-drag downward inside the two-line-high "code" box. The full thing is:
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<!-- hack for more info on incoming users-->
<br />{$que[$i]['uname']}<br /><a href="mailto:{$que[$i]['email']}">{$que[$i]['email']}</a> (<a href="http://www.google.com/search?q={$que[$i]['email']}" target="_blank">Google Email Addy</a>)<br />
<a href="http://www.rleeden.no-ip.com/geotool.php?ip={$que[$i]['ip']}" target="_blank">{$que[$i]['ip']}</a> (<a href="http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput={$que[$i]['ip']}" target="_blank">ARIN IP Whois</a>) (<a href="http://whois.domaintools.com/{$que[$i]['ip']}" target="_blank">Domain Tools IP info</a>)

Well, i also code utilities as well; i have an ip triangulation tool i've been working on for a while; and several others lol, hence my asking what exactly you wanted ...

That sounds clever. I have never considered running geolocation or whois on registration page.