PM Restrictions

jinky67

kazwookie wrote: »

Flirting on this site, you are here to save money not flirt


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Ahhh you see by being on here flirting..I am not out spending money:D

Incisor

I can see the need to do something and the action taken is right as a stopgap. But it does hamper the flirting and whatever.

Now, the people doing the spamming are morons who are not involved in the boards, doing this with throwaway IDs. I would suggest that the restrictions only apply to posters with less than say 20 posts, over a min of 10 days, on the basis that the spamming morons will not go to the effort to join in with threads requiring intelligence.

Trix

Incisor wrote: »

I can see the need to do something and the action taken is right as a stopgap. But it does hamper the flirting and whatever.

Now, the people doing the spamming are morons who are not involved in the boards, doing this with throwaway IDs. I would suggest that the restrictions only apply to posters with less than say 20 posts, over a min of 10 days, on the basis that the spamming morons will not go to the effort to join in with threads requiring intelligence.

Now I was with you until the last bit - have you been in The Arms? :rolleyes:


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Edinburghlass_2

The restrictions at the moment are only a temporary measure and will be reviewed as said by Webby in the OP.

In fact there are many new users who use the pm system to ask for help without ever posting on the boards and I certainly wouldn't like to see them restricted just because of spammers.

Browntoa

anything thats stops edilass pm'img me is a bonus.....lol

isofa

I don't understand why any newbies would PM someone to ask advice rather than posting a question on a board first, surely that's the whole point of the forums, to post and get a range of advice and opinions.

I'd strongly support disallowing PMs to posters with less than than a set number of posts over a time period. That solves everything, spammers create an ID, spam a few boards and PMs, are reported, hopefully have their ID deleted - so if this was implemented they could never PM in the first place.

immoral_angeluk

10 MINUTES??? Holy hell...

COOLTRIKERCHICK

isofa wrote: »

I don't understand why any newbies would PM someone to ask advice rather than posting a question on a board first, surely that's the whole point of the forums, to post and get a range of advice and opinions.

I'd strongly support disallowing PMs to posters with less than than a set number of posts over a time period. That solves everything, spammers create an ID, spam a few boards and PMs, are reported, hopefully have their ID deleted - so if this was implemented they could never PM in the first place.

i must admit i was one of them in the begining.... as i didnt want to look a plonker on an open forum.... i pm'd someone for more help and advice . and that mse'r helped me enormously.... and went over certain things a few times before i actually got the git of it so to speak.... so

even though it is a good idea about no pm's unless you have done x amount of posts etc... i do feel this could restrict genuine newbies which might be in a financial situation that needs answers, but dont or havent got the courage/confidence to post on the boards..

Incisor

isofa wrote: »

I don't understand why any newbies would PM someone to ask advice rather than posting a question on a board first, surely that's the whole point of the forums, to post and get a range of advice and opinions.

I strongly discourage newbies from PMing for advice. The strength of the forum is that everyone gets to pass comment on advice - I won't give it by PM

I'd strongly support disallowing PMs to posters with less than than a set number of posts over a time period. That solves everything, spammers create an ID, spam a few boards and PMs, are reported, hopefully have their ID deleted - so if this was implemented they could never PM in the first place.

It should be enough to throttle them, because they need to posts 100's of spam to get a response, and that number goes higher as people hate spammers more. Although I can see the potential for botnets to create 100's of ID's to spam with a decent throughput, even with a 10 minute limit.

buglawton

Blocking foreign IPs - sometimes I have to do a PM to someone while I happen to be abroad