Hey Guys,

Question; how do you guys combat members that sign up just to PM Spam people. I recently just had my first member that has done this.
What steps do you guys take?

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A forum, I frequent has it set that you have to have 50 post to be able to pm or e-mail..Most spammers would not hang around to post 50 post just to spam..

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There is Cyb Advanced Permission modification which will let you set such a number. Or you can use the built in promotion system to create a new usergroup after so many posts.

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This is the best way IMHO. Set Register Users to no PMs then create a new user group with PM permission and have it automatically promote users with X number of posts to it.

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Install any "Report Bad PM" mod?

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I always give PM spam warning before permanently ban for good.

I wouldn't even waste my time I simply delete their account

Spammers and the rest of the abusers know exactly what they are doing and therefore I should know exactly what I should do

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Exactly, I even blacklist the sites for which spammers are spamming! That way that site can't even receive genuine traffic from my forums in future, people has to understand that they can not do business online by spamming!

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Well I googled this persons email and they're obviously either a bot, or someone that just does this non-stop because there are a bunch of forums with this same exact problem. So I'm not giving them any chances.


I figured limiting PMs until after X posts was the most common, just seeing if there were any other ideas.

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an idea could be for a mod where the first pm sent is first of all sent to the admin who then clicks a ok or spam button which will either allow the PM to be delivered or ban the member.

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