I am starting a new forum and I wonder if these settings are ok? Should I losen the security a bit? If so what settings do you suggest?
Any thoughts suggestions welcome. 
OP wants opinions. Moved from General Questions to IMHO.
samclem, moderator
Looks ok to me, as long as you respond quickly to moderated posts. Otherwise a false positive (which happens on occasion) will leave a post sitting in moderation for an excessive amount of time.
If you are slow to moderate you may want to raise the moderation threshold a bit, but that will let some spammers in too.
A lot of spammers don’t show up on the stopforumspam site. You’ll pick up a lot of them with what you have but don’t expect to catch anywhere near all of them.
I thank you for your post, I was thinking it was way too strict actually.
Can I ask what are this sites settings simular? I just do not want to block legit people from coming to my site.