Feature Suggestion: PM Flood Control

[grinler]

PM Spamming is becoming the latest annoyance for forums and much harder to notice unless a user reports it. Would it be possible to add a PM flood control like you have for posts and searches?

I think in this day and age it is a necessary feature.

[China J]

PM Spamming is becoming the latest annoyance for forums and much harder to notice unless a user reports it. Would it be possible to add a PM flood control like you have for posts and searches?

I think in this day and age it is a necessary feature.

Manage Groups in ACP you will find this and if you change it to zero for that group I don't think you will have a problem with people taking the time to spam members one at a time...Think it would get boring really quick. :P

Max. Number users allowed to mass PM?
(Enter 0 or leave blank to disable mass PM)

[grinler]

That setting doesnt help. That just specified the maximum amount of people you can CC in a message.

These people are not mass pming...they are using a utility to send pms one at a time. I can see this from the servers access logs.

[Mark H.]

One option is to create an intermediary Members group that doesn't have any right to PM anyone. Keep new users in that group until a certain time period has elapsed, or some other criteia that you want.

Anyone I catch using a utililty to spam with PM's is going to be shown the door, permanently, and their IP Block x.x.x.0 banned as well.

RV

[grinler]

Their IP ranges have already been banned. That is not the solution, though. There are ways around that.

The only true solution is to add the ability to have a captcha when sending PMs or flood control it. Spammers who can only send 1 PM every 2-3 minutes are not gonna bother. It just wont be worth their time and they will be caught relatively quick.

Your idea of a different member group is a decent solution, but it too can be easily abused when you have a large site.