Sorry, this account has been suspended from being able to send private messages.

Whether you consider it spam or not, it fits the definition in the forum you're participating in. So yes, you did spam. If not, the IM ban wouldn't have auto triggered.

If you want to define it your own way you have the option of opening your own forum. It really isn't feasible for a forum to redefine their rules to suit each and every member's personal preferences.

 

I can understand why you think it was not deserved. I think you need to realize that the rules cover tons of people. I don't think anyone is saying your intention was too spam. But, at some point, I think you would acknowledge that someone cutting and pasting the same exact message and sending it in multiple PMs is spam. Obviously the easiest way to get the service you wanted would have been to post a thread, which if I understand your post you were too new to do. So instead you send some number of identical pms. You would agree wouldn't you that if someone sent 100 identical pms to members that would be spam? Without thinking of your particular case, you have to realize that the forum has rules to prevent abuse of other members. I've been here a long time and I remember when I would get a lot of random PM spam. It would get manually reported but by then 1/2 the forum was spammed. So they have implemented some automatic filters that keep people from doing that. I think you just need to accept that what you were doing, while not intentionally spamming people, ended up being too close to what is known to be spam so it was also prevented. Now you know. Seems like not that big a deal. Eventually you can start a thread and send PM again. Likewise, I am sure you can understand the forum not wanting every member who gets caught spamming to demand a review and claim it was not really spam. Spam here is defined as sending multiple, identical, pms - Period. I realize you did not know that before you did it, but that is just a small inconvenience for you and a great benefit to the forum as a whole - who now are exposed to substantially less PM spam.

 

browntwn very good explanation, thanks a lot.
The bad thing is that you can't create threads too
But however, I'l be waiting the ban to expire.

 

I would try to also contact an Administrator they might be able to help and give more advice.

 

This thread has 2 answers from the admin/owner and 7 more from 2 mods. Not sure who else he'd contact in addition to those.