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[Sentinel]

Hey,

So we have all seen the spam bots. They have moved from creating threads to PM people.
here is a solution to fix this without having to report threads and staff having to delete them.

• You need to have 10-25 posts to make a thread
• You cannot PM people unless you have 25 posts
• You can delete comments from other people on your own thread (in case they start putting it on other peoples threads)

This would make it so new members cannot make threads with spam and PM people with their nuisance garbage.
Staff wouldn't have to do anything and it would be a spam free community

 

[Designation]

Sounds good

 

[Jack]

It seems to me that spambots:
a) Create threads
b) Send PMs

But they don't make posts.

So I think the logical thing to do is to set it up so that you need to make 1 post to be able to start threads and send PMs.
This avoids the whole "moderating" first post issue as well.

I'm also fairly certain it is possible to have a user group that can post but cannot create threads or PM, then after a threshold of 1 post, add them to a group that can.

 

[Nic]

How about

You need 1 post to make threads.
You need 5 post to send messages.

 

[Blowns]

It seems to me that spambots:
a) Create threads
b) Send PMs

But they don't make posts.

So I think the logical thing to do is to set it up so that you need to make 1 post to be able to start threads and send PMs.
This avoids the whole "moderating" first post issue as well.

I'm also fairly certain it is possible to have a user group that can post but cannot create threads or PM, then after a threshold of 1 post, add them to a group that can.

They will 'evolve' or be 'modified' to the ability to post. So ~5 posts I think.

 

[Blowns]

If they will be evolved they can make 5 posts exxactly like they do threads.

I doubt it