[birdie]

Love the mod - thanks. Its worked wonders in a few forums in the last 2 days. The only problem I had was that there was a 50/50 split between spammers and geniune newbie posts. Several of the newbies got confused and posted a second (or even third) time; so I did two things:

1. The welcome email to newbies now mentions this

2.:

Originally Posted by woostar

If you goto:-
Languages & Phrases > Search in Phrases
Then search for: 'In an effort to stamp out forum SPAM'
replace this with whatever you would like for your forum.

I changed the phrase to:

<p>Thank you for posting. In an effort to stamp out spam only members with a certain number of posts can post messages with website links. Your post has been sent to the moderation que.</p>

<p>If you are a spammer, you just wasted your time ... ha ha!</p>

<p>If your message is genuine, then thanks. Your post will be live as soon as a moderator gets to it.</p>