As you can see this forum is still using SMF 1.1.12
I haven't been updating it because I will convert it to Wedge as soon as the first version is ready.
Wedge will be a lot stronger than SMF and a lot more difficult for spammers.
Anyway it looks like Wedge is taking us a little longer than what we thought and also I have seen a few more reports about mods not working properly with SMF 1.1.16 so I suppose the changes from 1.1.15 to 1.1.16 must have been big ones.
So as soon as I get some spear time I will either update this forum to 1.1.16 or create a test forum using 1.1.16 to see exactly what's wrong.
I cannot give you an ETA though, because after the big success of the CD we have just recorded with the Rock band Tebas, we are getting a lot of gigs and I will be travelling a lot with the band in the next weeks. I will try to have it ready as soon as I can though.
In the mean time try adding the mods "httpBL" and "anti spam questions". With these 2 mods working together they normally stop 99.9 % of the spammers so in all the forums I have the 3 mods together, mod StopSpammer never have almost any work left and it doesn't matter too much if it works or not.
You can read more about it in this tutorial I wrote a couple of years ago:
http://www.snoopyvirtualstudio.com/tutoriales/index.php?estudio=httpBL_2&language=englishIf you are going to use mod httpBL let me know because there is one little change you need to do for it to work properly and I haven't added it to the tutorial yet.