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theymos

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Quote from: blue5dragon on January 11, 2018, 03:06:10 PM

Erm...you've just created a problem for me with this. I just went to send a message to someone about tokens that they wanted to buy and I can't send it. The trouble is that he has given me 0.1 ETH as a deposit so that I would keep a certain amount of them back for him and so that I could move some of it into the wallet where the tokens are so he could see that I really have the AGI tokens.

I just made it so that everyone who has sent a PM to a newbie in the last 30 days is already "opted in". Does that fix your issue?

Quote from: hilariousetc on January 11, 2018, 02:52:49 PM

Wouldn't it be better to allow all messages at first but give a warning with PMs from newbies such as something like "Find this message annoying? Go into personal settings to block messages from brand new/newbie accounts" etc?

I didn't do that because I think that only a certain subset of users (maybe a minority) want to ever receive PMs from newbies, so it seemed to make more sense for such people to opt in.

pugman

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Quote from: theymos on January 11, 2018, 02:39:04 PM

In response to the annoying PM spam, you now have to opt into receiving PMs from newbies. The option is in your PM preferences. You also can't send PMs to newbies if you haven't opted in. Copper members are exempt, but only if you're wearing the copper membership.

You should opt into receiving newbie PMs if you post offers in the marketplace, if you like answering newbie questions, if you're a moderator, etc.

Thank you so much theymos, finally users can stop getting bothered by the annoying ICO spammers. Appreciate it. Something is finally being done here and if you continue to do wonderful things like this, soon this forum would be a better place to visit to.
Update :-
Theymos, I noticed a combo box which mentions about whether you should receive emails about pms or not. Why not add an option to just ignore the newbie messages and not disturb users via mail. Because most of the users only get irritated that their email gets spammed than their forum account.

blue5dragon

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Erm...you've just created a problem for me with this. I just went to send a message to someone about tokens that they wanted to buy and I can't send it. The trouble is that he has given me 0.1 ETH as a deposit so that I would keep a certain amount of them back for him and so that I could move some of it into the wallet where the tokens are so he could see that I really have the AGI tokens.

But now I can't get hold of him again to finalise anything. The tokens are unfrozen on the 15th and we will be able to complete the transaction then, but if he dosn't know about the PM thing then he might think I'm ignoring him and trying to steal the ether he sent me.

I have changed my account so that I can recive messages from newbies, so he can contact me, but I won't be able to reply to him if he does.

Any idea what I should do about this?

hilariousetc

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I'm sure many users will appreciate it. Is this new restriction/feature actually stated anywhere other than here so users actually know they're already opted out? Wouldn't it be better to allow all messages at first but give a warning with PMs from newbies such as something like "Find this message annoying? Go into personal settings to block messages from brand new/newbie accounts" etc?

theymos

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In response to the annoying PM spam, you now have to opt into receiving PMs from newbies. The option is in your PM preferences. You also can't send PMs to newbies if you haven't opted in. Copper members are exempt, but only if you're wearing the copper membership.

You should opt into receiving newbie PMs if you post offers in the marketplace, if you like answering newbie questions, if you're a moderator, etc.

To start with, if you sent a PM to a newbie in the last 30 days, you're already "opted in".

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