Stupid forum PM rules

joemagiera

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First you can't send a second PM within 60 seconds. Then you can only send pm's to people that are in your contacts unless you check that stupid box saying send to people that aren't your contacts.

But if try to send within 60 seconds, it tells you you have to wait until 60 seconds. But then it also unchecks the "send to contacts" box on you too. So then you get a failed send because the box is unchecked.

Why are they making it intentionally hard to do this stuff?

Just one of MANY reasons PMs are stupid and I hate them. Why people like and put up with PM's is beyond me. What is wrong with email?
 
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well, the 60 second rule typically is to prevent spammers. and honestly, a minute is not that long to wait. As for sending only to contacts.. i never had that problem. usually i just click on the users name in a thread and click 'send a private message' if that user has PM's turned on.

i know that i dont put my email address in my sig because i dont want spambots to find the address and just send me a bunch of unwanted junk.
 
I also dislike the 60 second rule. If I login to the forum and have multiple PM's waiting, I can easily knock off 2-3 replies a minute, except now I have to wait to send them all. Not a huge issue, but certainly frustrating. Could the rule be ajusted to 20 seconds, and still serve the purpose of preventing spam?
 
It helps prevent spam... but I could see that changed to 30 seconds without losing the effectiveness...
 
i know that i dont put my email address in my sig because i dont want spambots to find the address and just send me a bunch of unwanted junk.

A reasonable reason. However, do you get any spam/junk email now? If you do, then the spammers already have your email and there is nothing you can do short of changing your email address. Even if you have it spam filtered out, they still have it. If you don't get any spam/junk mail now, which is possible I guess, you are quite lucky, or you just started using the internet yesterday.

I've added new emails through my ISP, gmail, hotmail, google email and NEVER used them. Never posted with them, signed up for anything with them or sent an email with them, just to test. And sure enough I get spam emails on them. I have no idea how or why. So just based from my experience, virtually every email address already gets spam, so what's the big deal about posting an email address then? Let your spam filters do their work.
 
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