PM system temporarily disabled for newcomers

[Costello]

hello,

you may have received PM spam lately.
we are trying to solve that permanently, but in the meantime we have to disable the PM system for newcomers.
it should be back in the next couple of days, thanks for your patience!

 

[Link615]

I don't like this. If you gave justjak access, can I have access too?

 

[Anon10W1z]

You guys should just IP Ban or blacklist the spammers, seriously.

 

[TheRedfox]

Yay, i got PM back

 

[tj_cool]

You guys should just IP Ban or blacklist the spammers, seriously.

That's hard if they use variable IPs, and a lot of legit users are in their IP ranges as well.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Are you considering my suggestion? Even if you come up with a better solution, I really hope you do this for the time being.

 

[Rydian]

You guys should just IP Ban or blacklist the spammers, seriously.

If the internet used static IPs for all customers that might work, but as it is if you IP ban one person, next week they'll have a new IP and it won't be banned, while somebody else that didn't do anything could inherit the old IP and find themselves banned.

 

[Anon10W1z]

What about letting you be part of conversations that you are invited to, but not letting you start them until a certain point? Sometimes people join for testing apps and are added to a conversation so they can post their results.

Nice, but what "certain point"

 

[Hunter X]

I got my PM back, but when I send messages, it sends a blank message, and with the stuff I sent, I can't be bothered to retype that novel i wrote highlighting my research of cancer cell development on hardware.

 

[JoostinOnline]

What about letting you be part of conversations that you are invited to, but not letting you start them until a certain point? Sometimes people join for testing apps and are added to a conversation so they can post their results.

Nice, but what "certain point"

At whatever point the staff thinks is good.

 

[Anon10W1z]

You guys should just IP Ban or blacklist the spammers, seriously.

That's hard if they use variable IPs, and a lot of legit users are in their IP ranges as well.

How about the spammers usernames?

 

[Hunter X]

http://gbatemp.net/user/293996-harmeet32/ This is one of them

 

[Rydian]

You guys should just IP Ban or blacklist the spammers, seriously.

That's hard if they use variable IPs, and a lot of legit users are in their IP ranges as well.

How about the spammers usernames?

Can't know that they're a spammer until they spam, which is the issue.

 

[Anon10W1z]

@Rydian my suggestion is for preventing them from spamming in the future.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

This is news. I've never received any spam PMs.

 

[Rydian]

@Rydian my suggestion is for preventing them from spamming in the future.

That's what's normally done, but if the amount of incoming spam suddenly increases beyond a reasonable threshold (say, some spam company develops and starts selling a new script that automates the process on new systems, bypassing new captcha as well) then it needs to eb done preventatively until the security can be increased.

 

[Randamin]

I was wondering why my messenger icon had dissapeared after reporting a spam PM but I seem to know the cause now.

 

[EthanObi]

So wait. I can still access my Messenger..But i am a newcomer, Uhh...Does this mean I wasnt included in this?

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

This is news. I've never received any spam PMs.

Likewise.

Then again, we could just be really lucky

 

[Anon10W1z]

This is news. I've never received any spam PMs.

Likewise.

Then again, we could just be really lucky

Then I am too, I guess?

 

[TemporaryAccount]

I need PM access. More info: http://gbatemp.net/topic/327779-facebook-sign-in-not-working/page__pid__4238833