Suggestion on preventing PM advertising

NotMyWay · 04-05-2008, 04:22 PM

Recently, i recieved 2 advertising PMs, one of which was for an "x-trap workaround" (most likely intended to hack accounts), and more recently and advertisement for some website that supposedly "gives money for viewing advertisements". (i dont believe it, and couldnt be bothered). As it seems that such people have a post count of ... ... about 3, and are probably new comers whose primary intention was to advertise, I would like to suggest that if it is possible, maybe a system can be implemented such that users cant send PMs until they have maybe about 10 posts, or if the account is about 1 week old? (because i understand that some users only post in MoS/guild forums, thus having low post count). Thank you.

**Yosei** · 04-05-2008, 04:25 PM

Nice idea ^^

**Dezza** · 04-05-2008, 04:32 PM

But what happens when someone joined specifically to send a ligitimate message to someone? Perhaps a better idea, if it could be implemented, would be to have a mangled-letter type verification field for users sending PM's if they have <10 posts||been a member <1 week.

Ulrike · 04-05-2008, 05:13 PM

I like the typing verification idea. I heard it's easy to implement

**Lady-Loki** · 04-05-2008, 05:14 PM

I would go with "Member since . . . " because if it were post count hotn6c would be in big trouble but he has been on these forums for a long long time.

**Ralath** · 04-05-2008, 09:54 PM

I'm not sure the letter verification thing would work because from what I can tell, the people who are sending these messages are real people so they can actually identify the letters.

**Hyper** · 04-05-2008, 11:07 PM

Originally Posted by Lady-Loki

I would go with "Member since . . . " because if it were post count hotn6c would be in big trouble but he has been on these forums for a long long time.

But 10 was the suggested post count, and that is like 10 minutes-worth of posts. =\

Having to type a verification would KILL Val and A_Fail. LOL