Time Between Sending Pm's

[Cartman]

since when has it been 6 or 8 minutes between beeing able to send pm's, surely a shorter time would be more acceptable and still stop the spam bots?

[funkymonkey]

It's 5 minutes between PMs, and is currently being trialled as a solution. I might knock it down to 3 after the bot plague has settled down a bit more. But for now I'm gonna keep it at 5 mins as we're still getting signups from uncommon IP's which then don't become active on the forum.

just bear with it for a while.

[Dan_J]

o rite, so bots r signing up nd seeding out multiple spam pm's?

[R31Nismoid]

You've got it half right...

But see one of the many threads on it (funnily enough, a few threads below this one!)

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Sp...re-t265283.html

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/Ba...kz-t264737.html

[Duncan]

Thats a bit rough.

One thread complaining about too many spam pms

And another complaining when we try and do something to stop them.

[R31Nismoid]

Typical of people in this world today, damned if you do, damned if you dont!

[Duncan]

Its just a bit harsh. these spamzors are professionals while the admin and mods on here are a bunch of volunteers doing their best

[funkymonkey]

Trust me I'm a professional!

/rm -rf /*

[Beer Baron]

now that people are spamming to get up the 10 posts needed to pm I have a new policy. Anyone caught spamming to get up their 10 posts gets their post count reset to 0 and a suspension with warning note. or we can just flat out ban them. but surely some people will be actual genuine members who are just impatient. so we can do reset to 0, suspension/warning, and then if they do it a second time - ban.

[R31Nismoid]

I've been watching those spamming - seems many are dodgy - its actually exposed thing even better

I've banned a few accounts because of useless spam attempts that clearly offer nothing.

I say we make it 100 posts and limit it to certain areas!

[Beer Baron]

yeah it does expose them. as they need to spam to be able to pm. where as before they could sign up, spam and never be uncovered unless users reported it.

[JAS-25T]

so should I be reporting people who are spamming for the sake of getting the PM function enabled?

[Sl!m]

yes. just hit the report a post button.

[Madaz]

I've been watching those spamming - seems many are dodgy - its actually exposed thing even better

I've banned a few accounts because of useless spam attempts that clearly offer nothing.

I say we make it 100 posts and limit it to certain areas!

great idea 10 is a little too low, and someone who has just joined the site and community really doesn't need to PM people as they wouldn't know anyone

since there are admins in this thread i will ask my 2nd question here, rather than start a new thread

2) have adding trader comments been disabled for a bit or just mine, can a Admin please look into it, thank you

[Jap_Muscle]

what about the ability to to given rights to post Pms quickly if they are known not to be bots?

im sure there are local and regular members who have been on the forum for years or have attended meets who can be confirmed as non bots?

[R31Nismoid]

Its too much work for Admin then.

We need an automated solution, and pre-set limits achieve this

[funkymonkey]

I could make it so if your post count is over 100 then it drops the time limit. If you haven't been caught out by 100 posts then I'm fairly confident that you're a regular.

[Cartman]

I could make it so if your post count is over 100 then it drops the time limit. If you haven't been caught out by 100 posts then I'm fairly confident that you're a regular.

can you at least set it up so if you have over 100 posts its only 30 seconds or a minute to send another PM.... not the 4-5 minutes it is now  

[PM-R33]

Hey

Any chance some of the members that have been here a while (ie. me ) could get this PM thing dropped? I'm PMing every one in the group buy at the moment for details and the 5 minute thing is killing me

Does making a donation get rid of it?

Edited April 2, 2010 by PM-R33

[Taleb Tyres]

Is there a way to drop this delay for paying Traders such as myself who have also been on the forum for a while now?

Running a business, i dont get alot of time to check the forum, and when i do, i can get the other forums all replied within 10 minutes, meanwhile i have to wait 5 minutes for each pm i send which is impossible.