I laughed myself, what's he going to do come to my home lol

stopforumspam is no longer handing out API keys.

How do you know this? Did they make an announcement? What is their preferred way of communicating with their service then?

<a href="https://www.stopforumspam.com/signup" target="_blank">http://www.stopforumspam.com/signup</a>

I found it in a couple of clicks !


They are still issuing blacklisted IP's and usernames, so you can manually add those, best to put them in your IP deny manager via cpanel, that way they get nowhere hear the registration page.
I'm a newbie but I think you can also put the usernames in the block list in the ACP

oh well... that sucks but i'm glad I have one. I catch a few of those spammers everyday

I use everything I can, but this MOD has really helped, I was plagued this morning, but not a single spammer has got through in over three hours, so it must be working

SOM reports "5 Spammy Posts Automatically Moderated" on my forums front page.... however, when I look in the moderation queue there is nothing.

Any idea what might be causing the auto moderated posts to not be placed in the moderation queue?

You might have it set to automatically delete them in which case it wouldn't be in the moderation queue.

I have the "Auto-Moderation: Post Action" set to 'Moderate Post'

Not sure what else might be interfering in it.