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Stop The Storm
Mar 08, 2009, 04:44 PM
whats going on with that, please get rid or lower it, 10 minutes is way way to long to wait to send a couple of pm's
Yang Whirlwind
Mar 08, 2009, 05:19 PM
The 10 minutes wait period is a counter measure to the latest spam method:
create a new account and send 100 spam mail to different users offering gold and ecto for rl money.
We know the 10 min. wait is annoying and are currently looking for other methods of dealing with the nuisance ... please bear with us.
Stop The Storm
Mar 08, 2009, 06:02 PM
ahh thought it was something like that, thanks
imnotyourmother
Mar 09, 2009, 09:53 AM
Well if it stops my box from filling with junk. More POWER to ya.

The game does its own style of this by the 24 hour ban action...So 10 minutes is fair.

It must work cause i have never gotten a RL deal..nor do I want them...
Stop The Storm
Mar 09, 2009, 09:20 PM
tbh ive been on here since jan 2007 and ive never had a single person or bot pm me selling/buying/linking to anything
Marty Silverblade
Mar 10, 2009, 01:06 AM
Afaik, It's really only picked up recently. I've gotten one or two. We don't really know how the targets get chosen, it may be picking them off some list that you're low down on (the currently online list perhaps?). As Yang said, we're looking into it.
Yang Whirlwind
Mar 10, 2009, 09:14 AM
I did not get any spam PM's either (though other moderators did), but we have had far too many reports for us to ignore this. Hopefully another solution can be found soon.
RTSFirebat
Mar 10, 2009, 02:15 PM
Well the change is a bit sudden, but it had to be done. Personally I didn't get any spam messages, but I know a ton of people did. You can add more then 1 person to a PM can you not? If so send the same message at the same time. Failing that 10 mins is not really that much of a big deal.
Katsumi
Mar 10, 2009, 02:43 PM
I know mods can RTS, but I don't think regular users can pm more than one person at a time.
Stop The Storm
Mar 12, 2009, 08:44 PM
Well the change is a bit sudden, but it had to be done. Personally I didn't get any spam messages, but I know a ton of people did. You can add more then 1 person to a PM can you not? If so send the same message at the same time. Failing that 10 mins is not really that much of a big deal.

not really possible if you need to pm individuals isit?

i mean how many times have you ever pmd more than one person the exact same thing, unless you were a spamming bot linking to your gold site lol