how to stop PM spammers , just a suggestion

maybe better to just to allow users who have min 20 posts
to PM others

well i myself am having about 3-4 AD PMs in a week
anyways thanks to DP team for their great forum

and
whats your Suggestion?

 

20 posts? I'll say maybe 100... Spam is getting worse or what? I get 2-3 spammish PM's per week, and that's all.

 

Jacob, I agree with your points but this siggestion is suggested many times in DP and it is rejected. It is really help to reduce spam.

 

I think I will agree to 100 post... I really hate this spammers giving me false excitement on my inbox. grrrrrrrrrrrr

 

100 posts is a lot. I dont have many posts but Im a genuine user and I use the pm system a lot (not to spam either). 20 posts is a good idea though.

 

This is becoming a problem, why not have a report PM button and reject PMs from a said user.
It’s a pain trying to report PMs, why not make it easier?
If a user gets so many reports he or she should be banned.

Thanks Brian

 

100 is good and this would make DP much more professional but this may effect the sign up rate
ppl may not have enough time to have 100 posts and then begin to buy or sell or trade something
i agree with 20

Rejecting or Forwarding it to a mod ?
no use
it would just take another 5 minutes to create a new username on DP and start spamming

 

Don’t duplicate accounts get banned? How about banning an IP of all banned members?

Thanks Brian

 

Banning IP? I think that will cost us a problem coz we are using a shared IP from our local ISP...

I think Requiring them something like what DP have in BST I think that will drive them away from here or at least.

 

Duplicate account?
how to find them ?
they may a Proxy site , VPN , IP : Port
and maybe another browser for the cookies !

well after all these just some new rules for the number of post would be better

 

Can't agree with this.

Many "lurkers" have gone on to become my best workers. If someone only has time to PM for vital information rather than spam the forums with useless information, it might just mean they are good at time management and only focussed on results-based actions.

For example, in the past month I have hired three full time bloggers, all of them very good and all of them with post counts below 10.

 

Somebody also sent a spam message with anchor text of a URL of one of the threads in DP, when i clicked it -it is a spam site. I already reported the said username.

 

Maybe it is just me, maybe I am very lucky, but I have not received that many spam, (maybe 2 or 3 total).
So I was under the impression that the problem was well under control.

FFMG