Do you think in the future we will be able to prevent these sort of spam bots?
Say we can ip ban them or something like that?
Likely not. It's hard to limit spam PMs without potentially disrupting the legitimate ones from the start. In addition, it can be easy to circumvent these kinds of measures.Say we can ip ban them or something like that?
IP ban wouldn't work since its very easy to just change your IP or use a proxy from the start. Either way, the PM can only be sent once per 6 minutes so that does help with the rate limit. Creating account from a known proxy would also require payment.
Well in that case, why not totally disable the pms for newbie members? Only allow them to pm after they have reached the junior member rank? Bitcointalk.org is high on spammers list, i think i have received some spam in the past too, there needs to be a mechanism to prevent this.
