Mod Question Please

[beechey]

well if say u have over 1000 posts your not gonna be a spammer

 

[Truck]

They only have 19 and been on here from 2006 how can I send him my number?

get them to post more...if theyre in active why would you send them your number? Lol

 

[Gill]

They only have 19 and been on here from 2006 how can I send him my number?

Use the Email Option

 

[TigerIssey]

Have to say, I cannot be bothered with the PM system on here now.

If I need to PM a member from Marine forum, I use another forum for messages. Beats the PM delay every time.

 

[Bignose]

Guys,

while I and the rest of the mod team can appreciate the frustrations with the delays, you do have to realize it is a balancing act between giving the members freedoms and preventing the spammers from abusing it. Quite simply, without these controls in place, everyone would have gotten many many spam PMs and I don't think that anyone wants that, really. With the controls in place, only a very few members have gotten spam emails lately. and that is exactly what the delays were meant to do. So, for the moment, what we have now is probably going to stay because of the success we have been seeing. We are going to continue to tweak it here and there, but I cannot imagine it going away because it is very successful at preventing some of the big issue we've had in the past.

Unfortunately, this being such a big and active forum we attract a significant amount of spammers so this is just something we are all going to have to deal with.

 

[Tolak]

because of spammers...it started at 3 and must have gone up to 5...what a joke IMO

2 is sufficient IMO

It is set at 3 minutes, and has been for quite some time. This site averages a little over 200 pm's per day. In the 48 hours spanning April 7th & 8th we had over 11,000pm's, all spam, mostly porn. This is not a joke, and occurred before the pm delay was instituted. This is a family oriented forum, it is our job as moderators to do everything we can to keep it that way. The delay was initialized by the site owner, William, so it is obvious that is is wanted, needed, and going to stay.

theyve not got the PM option yet then

Its this that 20+ post rule?

i believe it is now 50

The amount varies, depending on what we see registering as new members, what we see happening on other forums, and data received from spam and spammer monitoring sites. There is more to this forum than what you see. This number gets adjusted as needed.

They only have 19 and been on here from 2006 how can I send him my number?

Use the Email Option

This is the best answer, as e-mail accounts have blocking capabilities for spam.

 

[Bignose]

The delay set at 3 minutes seems longer because of what the forum server tells you. It says "you cannot PM again until 3:55 pm" (or some other specific time). You then look at your clock on your wall or your computer clock and do the math as it turns out it is 5 or 7 or sometimes even 10 mins. This is all true.

The missing piece of the puzzle is that the server time seems to run constantly slow. At this moment in time, it seems to be about 4 to 5 minutes behind my computer time. You put those 4 or 5 mins back in, and suddenly, you can see that the PM delay is indeed only 3 mins. Whenever the server time gets really far off, we (mods) ask Tolak to put it back, but the server time does seem to constantly lose time over weeks and months. It seems like it is one of those things that aren't worth major effort to fix so we'll just have to make do. For the most part it really doesn't matter... except when you get situations like this.

[In my best Paul Harvey voice]And now you know the rest of the story.

 

[OldMan47]

I never find any limits on using the PM but I am not a spammer trying to send huge numbers to people. Each time I receive a PM I try to answer right away and it is not unusual to have a slow moving PM conversation with someone. Unless you give knee jerk responses, I don't think the limits would even slow you down.