Rules Sending private messages has been suspended.

Did you spam via PMs?

 

Isn't that what most spam is? People trying to buy/sell stuff to you?

 

It's temporary, it will reinstate automatically. Just be careful not to PM spam when it does.

 

Maybe not but many users don't give a reference url when they contact people and if what they offer isn't a direct match with the request then the recipient often cries "spam". It really pays to be very clear in your communication with people.

 

Let's look at some statistics here at the time the system disabled your ability to send PMs...

• You had very few posts.
• You were sending hundreds of PMs.
• The PMs you were sending were the same.

Generally speaking, a good rule of thumb is that if you can't bother to type a real PM, and are just copy/pasting the same message to people, then it's most likely spam.

 

To be honest, I don't like reading people's PMs even if they give me permission. In fact I go out of my way to NOT read them if at all possible, while still getting the data I need.

As an example, I can see the system currently shows 124 PMs you sent that were duplicates of another PM you sent, with one of them being sent 58 times (without reading your actual PM).

mysql> SELECT COUNT(*) AS duplicates, MD5(message) AS hash FROM pmtext WHERE fromuserid = 255317 GROUP BY hash HAVING duplicates > 1 ORDER BY duplicates DESC;
+------------+----------------------------------+
| duplicates | hash                             |
+------------+----------------------------------+
|         58 | 943866f29fa31d26b8191e6c7736a2ac |
|          8 | a3aa29f5c51cb60a220d62799a7e7386 |
|          7 | 2460b46dd963920ac7ab36f21010dfe0 |
|          6 | d46f4a47c6daabaebf701c901aaf93ad |
|          5 | 39ea7698ef64c7d4e531d0001a431d9d |
|          3 | ca2324eae8713ffc78566f3dc801b8fa |
|          3 | 8a479cc44d52446bcb6077491017e668 |
|          2 | 696220992355ddfc517eb9155b880b1d |
|          2 | b6a6eb2f0c12ba1870928c499e175d68 |
|          2 | d45b994f93e8fa772ef8db541bc6ee74 |
|          2 | c670c49e43c55bb9d09e5dabe0971d1f |
|          2 | b99ce36ebe2de6093939d3e9df7c55e0 |
|          2 | b6b839e9a7244b82efbd830b0994d92b |
|          2 | 3cb2990ae2c8daf552e5e84e527fe986 |
|          2 | c4747090ff96d36fbb8355832b34557c |
|          2 | 1664bab1227322851f4ec9bd173303e9 |
|          2 | ce0220991c5cd959f780a2f76916bf1d |
|          2 | 47a1575c5ef3321ce0befe984e7ae7f8 |
|          2 | 5439a8fbe4034bd800189bbb2104cb3e |
|          2 | 8b447addacc87785aa49a1fbd428473e |
|          2 | e5a396a78b3d5ca148635092fcaae82e |
|          2 | 66ca3d0c2787c195af12baa95161f942 |
|          2 | 5fabb598c2a623a07288015fd094d076 |
|          2 | f8ff7a2a049329142d59b1a81b4c019d |
+------------+----------------------------------+
24 rows in set (0.00 sec)

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That tells me you were sending a ton of PMs without referencing the sale thread or anything else unique about it since the PMs were identical. I'll lift the temporary ban early, but just be more careful in the future. If you are just sending copy/paste PMs, the receiver may get confused and not remember/know what sale thread you are even talking about and report it as spam.

 

Buying or selling has nothing to do with it.

 

PM suspensions are automatically lifted.

 

It varies... depends on how much someone was spamming.

 

As shawn already replied "PM suspensions are automatically lifted." so wait for that and take care of this next time.

DON.