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I realize that. Im just saying to lower the limit.
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Remove Jr VIP Time Between PMs
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I realize that. Im just saying to lower the limit.
wpbacklinks
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+1'd This! 
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Exactly. Anyone who offers a service or product on the forum usually gets swamped with PMs. From joint ventures to sales and technical enquiries.
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The Doctor
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it would have to be X per 63 seconds. like i said before, you can't change the time, you can only allow more to be sent within the time but that could work too. you could set it so that jrvip can send like 3 messages within the 63 second period which would work fine.
ViperVin
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LOL, remind me not to PM you when you go on vacation.
link-package
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A good idea. I hate that too. So I would second your idea.
Rajthepositivelife
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+1 to this
Yup the time limit should be lowered
Yup the time limit should be lowered
rakoom2002
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Brilliant Idea. This in itself would be a huge selling point for jr vip.
wowhaxor
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I keep my box a little full because I'm too lazy to empty it, so usually after 20-30 PMs I can't get anymore
rakoom2002
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EVEN BETTER IDEA:
To prevent SPAM, as some people have mentioned this might be a problem, Remove the messaging limit on REPLIES only for Jr. VIP and above.
To prevent SPAM, as some people have mentioned this might be a problem, Remove the messaging limit on REPLIES only for Jr. VIP and above.
Scripteen
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For those talking about spam. the forum allows sending the same pm to 15 persons at once or like 850 members/hour.
I don't think someone will pay 100$ and make xx posts to get jr.vip to send mass pms. We didn't actually get such attack for as long as I was here so pm spam doesn't seem to be an issue.
I don't think someone will pay 100$ and make xx posts to get jr.vip to send mass pms. We didn't actually get such attack for as long as I was here so pm spam doesn't seem to be an issue.
wowhaxor
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Its not an issue because there are things like this in place, in early days the forum used to get PM spammed.
Also $100 is not much if it removed the wait time (15 people at once, could be spammed every 2 seconds or thereabouts when automated without delays. That brings the number up to 27,000 an hour).
I actually developed a PM spamming software (now defunct) about two years back and it is extremely profitable, $100 for an account with no limits would easily be recouped even if it was only able to mass pm for 30 minutes before being banned.
Just saying its there for a reason, I'd be fully on board with like a 25 second delay or, as mentioned earlier, no delay when replying to a PM you have received.
imperial109
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How about the search limit too? Sometimes the wrong keywords are used. I'm not sure how that can be abused. If someone really wanted to bot the search, they could just use Google.
And honestly, a bot would be pretty easy to code that has a timer, for sending PMs. Why not implement captcha instead?
And honestly, a bot would be pretty easy to code that has a timer, for sending PMs. Why not implement captcha instead?
wowhaxor
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Typically its not for abuse, its for server load. Making people wait cuts down on the number of searches that are being queried at any time which could lag up the forum.
Because you usually get reported and banned in a half hour to an hour on a forum this active. Captcha solving is easily added to any bot, but when there's a delay there really is not any getting around that.
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Captchas is the worst idea ever. No one wants to fill out 30 more captchas a day than we already have to.
Mass searching could overload the sever and crash BHW. Then you would be back here complaining its down. :S
