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Feedback: PMs being misused?
Ok people, dont flame me for this, its just a suggestion.
Lately people have been sending me PMs with links to their forums, abuses etc. I don't want to disclose who they are, as it wont be a very happy experience for them, but I personally feel that people misuse the PM function. Things like links to forums etc. are being sent through the PMs which is obviously against the rules. Either the PM function should be disabled or a way to read the PMs being sent should be devised, however this won't be possible as nobody can monitor each of the 40000+ members on PokeCommunity Once again, this is just a suggestion, no flaming please ~SkySlayer |
It is a misuse of the PM function, you're very right about that. Disabling PM's would be a bit excessive though, since it is a vital method of communication amongst members. What you should be doing is forwarding these PM's to higher staff members so that they can deal with it appropriately.
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As Amachi said, if you get such a PM, you have two options.
Either ignore the member that sent it, or forward the respective PM to a staff member (if it is an advertising spammer, a staff member which holds the rank of Super Moderator and higher), once you did so, the staff will know that abuse is going on and is able to take actions against it. But if you just keep quiet, of course we can't know about it and thus are not able to do something about it. And about the "monitoring PMs" thing, it is possible to do that with a plugin, you could just search for forum URLs in them, however, we respect our members privacy, so that option is out cold and will never be used here. If you think you get too many spam PMs, you can even disable your PM option in your User CP, just untick the "Enable Private Messaging" box in your Messaging Options. That way nobody will be able to send PMs to you. |
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