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bobobex

The Better Half

From: Lincoln, UK

Registered: 2008-11-26

Posts: 1,108

Unsolicited PM's to forum users

It has come to my attention that some of our forum users are receiving unsolicited PM's from some other members, and that the content of these PM's contains threatening undertones and is causing distress.

I am writing this post to let you know that both Philip and I, and the larger CrunchBang forum community as a whole does not and will not tolerate this kind of behaviour from any of our members.

If any member receives a PM which contains content which causes them alarm or distress or has a threatening nature, please forward it to any of the mods and we will deal with it.

The PM system is an added feature to these forums and if it continues to be abused in this way then it will be disabled for all users.

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DeepDayze

#! Member

Registered: 2010-07-02

Posts: 72

Re: Unsolicited PM's to forum users

Most PM's of that type tend to come from spammers and bots. Of course its a good thing to report PM's that are suspicious to staff anyhow

Spam shouldn't be tolerated and spam in PM's are worse

pvsage

Internal Affairs

From: North Carolina

Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 8,988

Re: Unsolicited PM's to forum users

AFAIK there isn't any mechanism for reporting PMs, due to the private nature of PMs.  However, if you send a PM to any of us mods (you can find our usernames on the main forums page) we'll investigate immediately and take whatever action is needed.

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dura

Bloated Gimp

From: interzone

Registered: 2012-09-15

Posts: 2,066

Re: Unsolicited PM's to forum users

The above poster is a complete spamjob. Now kindly bugger off

pvsage

Internal Affairs

From: North Carolina

Registered: 2009-10-18

Posts: 8,988

Re: Unsolicited PM's to forum users

Please do not respond directly to spam posts; instead just report them.  That helps us keep the threads neat and tidy, without sacrificing any narrative flow.

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