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I finally set one of my quieter forums to full moderation mode because of the spammers. Even with the anti-spam software hooked in I was still getting 1 or 2 a day posting junk. It's easier to approve the good messages vs delete out all the bad ones.

How do I set the software to email me when a post is added, so I know to go in and look at it?

watch the form then set notifications in your preferences.

From memory it would be a watched forum.
So mystuff>watch lists.
Select the watched forum tab which is default.
Select edit watched forums.
Elect to watch and then elect notification option.

Hmmmm I just checked.

This forum has about twenty areas. I have every single one watched. And each one says it sends email notification when a new post was created.

I just saw that a new post was waiting in moderation. So I approved that post. The post went live. It is only when it went live that I received an email message.

I want to receive an email message that the post is pending, waiting for me to approve .

Okay that would be in mystuff>edit preferences.
at the bottom.
Notify me when a post needs to be approved in a forum I moderate.
I never tried it as a admin. So you may need to make yourself a moderator.

There we go, we'll see how that works. Thanks!

for thrills I tried a admin name on a site and added it to the moderator list.
The name now appears as a moderator in the forum.
But member management still reports the user as a admin as well as the profile.

Here's a related issue - it does still catch new posters which is good - it's blocking a lot of spam from going live.

However, a poster who has made 13 posts now has his posts going live without being moderated. I'm not sure I want any posters' posts going live immediately just yet. Is there a reason some peoples' posts might bypass this full-moderation setting?

Check group management for post counts.
It is probably you have the post count populated with a similar number and he was promoted to a new group not moderated.

I seem to recall this happening because it is counting all post's even if it is not approved yet.

Aha, I thought the setting was for the entire forum, not just for one group. Yes, I have a separate group for brand new forum members so they can't PM or anything, to keep spammers under control. Then they graduate to a looser level of restrictions. So now I have both of those groups being moderated.

Thanks!

Lisa, are you using the Stop Forum Spam function? I am, and I can't remember the last time I had a spammer. I think your forums are more active than mine, but I still get well over 300 new registrations each month.

Steve -

Yes, I am signed up with them. They block a lot for us. These people that get in are coming in with fresh, clean accounts - and then start spamming with them .

Part of the reason would be that the Stop Forum Spam version that's stock now doesn't do a registration based IP check, it only validates the user email; the initial modification checked the IP before even loading the registration page.