2 questions/suggestions..
1. Can you raise the limit of the PM boxes? I think they're set to 30 in total witch is very little and my PM boxes get filled all the time and I don't get all PMs because of this. Maybe set it to 100 or 150 PMs?
2. Can't you set a limit of for example 50 posts for posting in the market place forum? It's getting really old with all these people joining and spamming this community. Even if you don't want to put that limit, type it in bold red text in the registration page so the spammers think they have to post so many and that should change their mind about registering just to spam.
Megan posted this at 01:34 — 18th September 2002.
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You have a point about the spamming, but we tend to find that the spammers are going to spam regardless of any rules we set up. We did have just a Jobs & Barter Forum, rather than a more comprehensive Market Place forum at one time, but we found that the spam in other areas of the forums was getting out of control. i.e. If they can't spam in Market Place they'll put it in another forum instead. At least here there's a place for it to go and we don't have to spend half our time deciding if something is spam and deleting it if it is.
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Suzanne posted this at 05:55 — 18th September 2002.
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I don't think the PM message limit should be raised. The PMs are a courtesy to facilitate communication -- proper maintenance by the owners should keep them low enough, unless you're getting 30 PMs a day!?
If that's the case, you might want to encourage people to email you instead.
The Webmistress posted this at 07:57 — 18th September 2002.
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I agree that I don;t think that PM's should be stored. If you need to keep copies copy the messages and store them elsewhere.
zollet posted this at 08:19 — 18th September 2002.
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Well, it's mostly PMs with the moderators that have been deleting my threads
that I store. Which is why I thought since you guys are the cause of it, you should give me more space, hehe. I'm just teasing, I will just delete your PMs.
nike_guy_man posted this at 09:13 — 18th September 2002.
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You mean they actually TELL you when they delete your threads??
I've never been afforded that luxury
Mark Hensler posted this at 10:35 — 18th September 2002.
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The PMs are automated. It was a part hack added by Chad. The mods/admin select one of 4 reasons for deleting the post/thread and a PM is sent to the author, then the post/thread is removed from public viewing and placed in a hidden forum for future reference by the site staff.
If your not getting these PMs, it's either because your PM box is full, or you can't remember where you posted.
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nike_guy_man posted this at 10:43 — 18th September 2002.
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Maybe it was just a glitch.... I'm not popular enough to get multiple PMs so my box is emtpy or has less than 5 PMs... I've had 1 post deleted... but didn't get a message so maybe it was a thing at the time
zollet posted this at 10:51 — 18th September 2002.
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The reason I said my PM is full because of the mods is because I haven't accepted their decision yet
So I always PM them back asking why my post was deleted.
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