# Starting a new forum question.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starting-a-new-forum-question/710423>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 20, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starting-a-new-forum-question/710423 "2015-01-20T22:54:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Matchingsockmissing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@Matchingsockmissing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Matchingsockmissing)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starting-a-new-forum-question/710423/1 "2015-01-20T22:54:45Z")

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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?

[![](https://i.imgur.com/DdddsCr.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/DdddsCr.jpg)

Any thoughts suggestions welcome. 😃

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starting-a-new-forum-question/710423/2 "2015-01-20T23:03:47Z")

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OP wants opinions. Moved from General Questions to IMHO.

**samclem** , moderator

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**Author:** ![engineer\_comp\_geek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/engineer_comp_geek/32/504_2.png) [@engineer\_comp\_geek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/engineer_comp_geek)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starting-a-new-forum-question/710423/3 "2015-01-20T23:09:21Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Matchingsockmissing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@Matchingsockmissing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Matchingsockmissing)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starting-a-new-forum-question/710423/4 "2015-01-20T23:40:20Z")

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I thank you for your post, I was thinking it was way too strict actually.

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**Author:** ![Matchingsockmissing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ec9cab/32.png) [@Matchingsockmissing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Matchingsockmissing)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starting-a-new-forum-question/710423/5 "2015-01-20T23:42:00Z")

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Can I ask what are this sites settings simular? I just do not want to block legit people from coming to my site.