Private Messaging

[SetoTK]

Private messaging has been disabled until i can figure out a way to reduce the spam

This shouldn't take more than a few days.

Thank you for your patience

[froggyboy604]

Thanks for the notification.

[SetoTK]

Private messaging re activated.

if/when spam re-appears i'll take further measures

[Skeithex]

I'm curios to know what measures you can take seto. only thing I can think of is to put all new members in a non PM using group until they reach a certain # of posts.

[SetoTK]

Captcha, check content of message to see if it similar to other messages, restict how many pm's each user can send in a 24 hour period, whether certain bbcode can be used

they what i can think of off hand, i'll be making some additional changes to private message backend,


though to be fair blocking spammers from signing up in the first place would be the optimal method

[Skeithex]

SetoTK wrote:

Captcha, check content of message to see if it similar to other messages, restict how many pm's each user can send in a 24 hour period, whether certain bbcode can be used they what i can think of off hand, i'll be making some additional changes to private message backend, though to be fair blocking spammers from signing up in the first place would be the optimal method

those are some good anti spam measures.

[Liddo Annie]

Oh yay a spam. =/

[SetoTK]

Users below 5 posts cannot send private messages as of 5 minutes ago.

also due to a cock up in deleting a neat collection of spam a few private messages may return no text

so if you could post the id of the message i'll remove it completely from db

to find out the id you would need to look in the url for p= this would be the id of private message

[froggyboy604]

Thanks for the update. Great work!