X Posts before sending PM's/VM's

Do you have a limit/post count a user much reach before being able to send pms or visitor messages, if so, what is the limit and do you think it benefits your forum?

 

Nope, i will add it. But i dont know where to get the visitor message thingy.

 

No, I see no point in restricting users.

 

No. I have never had enough of a problem with PM abuse to feel compelled to add such a measure.

 

Its called private message spam. People or bots will sign up on forums and send dozens/hundreds of private messages. Your site then emails the private message to the member.

I have a 3 post limit, and then the promotion script runs every hour. So they might have to wait anywhere from 1 - 59 minutes, depending on what time they registered.

 

I used to, but not any more. It used to be 30 posts before members could PM.

 

Why do you choose not to now? Was there any reason?

 

I chose not to purely because i didn't see a need to restrict it, i wasn't getting spammed to start off with, and i haven't. So i decided to unrestrict it again til i find it necessary.

 

Thats the problem with spammers, they can come at anytime and usually when youre asleep, your mods arent on and no one is there to clean up

 

That is true. Maybe ill make it 10 or so posts