brand new users should not be alloud to send pm messages.

you should have to make 10 posts before you can send a pm message imo,

look at this spam I just recieved form some guy who has just joined and is spamming -

 

As discussed before, that way newbies would have no way of contacting mods / peers for help.

Just do as always, forward the spam ALONG WITH the user's PROFILE PAGE (not name alone) to a Mod who's online and they'll get banned promptly.

 

Newbies can be allowed to pm admin/mods only.

 

Then you still deny them things like private bids just because a few wankers abuse the position.

 

I think most PM SPAMers have zero posts. Maybe require five posts, or maybe just one post, to send PMs, and for them, max it at sending a PM to one member at a time max. With the 30 second wait, they won't last very long at PMing one member every 30 seconds, vs mass E-mail SPAM!!

 

eah. I agree with at least 5 posts before sending PM...why dont they make some good posts ?

 

That would result in 5 spam posts here . I guess they should stay in PMs.

 

maby because they are bots who don't post they just spam via pm's.

Yes I think 5 posts before sending a PM is a good idea.

 

I too go for limiting the number of PM that can be sent at a time. A new user with zero posts sure has very less number of contacts here. So there is no reason for sending more than 1 pm at a time. The only reason I can see is spamming.

 

I think we can't really totally avoid spammers. Just report them to the mods and watch them be banned!!! lol...

--Joe

 

The time delay plus single recipient only could be an idea. Would deter me for sure.

 

Agreed. One, max two pms daily should be more than enough for a noob. Also sending a single pm to multiple recipients should be forbidden for them.

 

I agree totally!

 

i totally agree