Hi Chris,
Yep, I agree, requiring posts to be authorised by mods / admins if the members approved post count is less than say 1 or 2
works very well for reducing spam....
Unfortunately, I added a forum mod that checks the members username, email and IP address to a list of known spammers
that have been reported to
http://www.stopforumspam.com/The mod (for the most part) works very very well in terms of automatically rejecting spammers.
(The automated system rejects around 5 to 10 spam posts a day), but sometimes it misses a couple, and they get through.
The minimum required post count rule should stop these posts from ever being displayed on the forum,
however the stopforumspam mod has stuffed up the code that checks for this
I have been meaning to get around to fixing the code up (Its just includes the mod at certain sections of the phpBB3 post code..
That must be bypassing code or setting somewhere....)
The other problem with the stopforumspam mod is that only the admin can ban, remove posts, and report the spammer to the stop forum spam website....
I need to modify the code to allow moderators the ability to do this as well. (Why should they miss out on all the fun Lol !)
Cheers
Matti
Sounds like you are all over it 
