How To Handle A Private Messaging Advertiser

[iogames]

<i>Get 'em!</i>

[legionofangels]

I gave an Infraction/Warning - Delete All Pm's and I send a pm stating it's against the rules.

After that they keep going with it, immediate ban. I temp banned the last person who did this 1 day for each email sent, so like 30 day ban.

[Alfa1]

I think that the amount of spam that a board is getting is dependant upon how quick and resolute the staff handles spammers.

Spam will never be on my board for longer than 10 minutes. And 10 minutes is very long for my board.
My members know that we instantly deal with spam PM's, so they do not hesitate to report the PM. (See report PM hack)
If we would only give warnings, then we would receive less reports.

Although it is not always successful; we do report to the spammers ISP. We also trace related accounts and close them down as well.

We close accounts made with fake email addresses.
We close double accounts.
We scan all PM's with scripts to expose spamming.

[popowich]

If it is content relevant and there is a chance for a link exchange I usually make a futile attempt at a link exchange, but 95% of the time I delete all private messages sent by them and then ban their account.

-Raymond

[Kimmi]

i have it set up when they join they are in a group that cant pm.. they wont beable to pm until they reach so many post counts.and are in the members group...

[legionofangels]

Had one last night of someone saying, "hey, you seem like a nice person, I'd like to get to know you more". They were sending it to everyone saying "email me". I was like, could it get any lamer? seriously

[duh]

Originally Posted by Kimmi

i have it set up when they join they are in a group that cant pm.. they wont beable to pm until they reach so many post counts.and are in the members group...

Good idea....I usually ban though right away. Right now it's easy to take the time to do.

[Aneurysm]

Originally Posted by FRDS

ban them and delete their PMs?

Thats the only way to go!


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[Brandon Sheley]

a quick ban, not questions asked

[giraffesyo]

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