Spammers

[Themarble]

Could just make it so users with less than 10 or so posts can't send links as a message.

Or users with less than 5 thumbs up can't message.

Things like this that would make it harder for a bot to just spam straight away. Could even have both of these.

As long as you make it harder for the botter to do what they want, while not really impacting the actual users, then we in a sense just win.

[Girlspns]

Could just make it so users with less than 10 or so posts can't send links as a message.

Or users with less than 5 thumbs up can't message.

Things like this that would make it harder for a bot to just spam straight away. Could even have both of these.

As long as you make it harder for the botter to do what they want, while not really impacting the actual users, then we in a sense just win.

I went through this already, multiple times.

That functionality is very shoddy and it barely works, in fact, it's been on this entire time.

Clearly you can see how well it (doesn't) work.

[dublinjohn]

Could just make it so users with less than 10 or so posts can't send links as a message.

Or users with less than 5 thumbs up can't message.

Things like this that would make it harder for a bot to just spam straight away. Could even have both of these.

As long as you make it harder for the botter to do what they want, while not really impacting the actual users, then we in a sense just win.

I went through this already, multiple times.

That functionality is very shoddy and it barely works, in fact, it's been on this entire time.

Clearly you can see how well it (doesn't) work.

Are there other types of forums that the functionality is better on?

[Somebody]

It's incredible that someone would have this kind of patience and motivation to use sleeper accounts on a forum. I wonder if these are related to the same people who did this on NationStates.