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ekool

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Wednesday, March 14th 2012, 10:01pm

Report PM button?

I just got a spam PM on this site. I notice there is no "report PM" button... shouldn't there be the ability to report spam PM's in the software? VB has this, it would be very handy.

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Wednesday, March 14th 2012, 10:09pm

In the current version of the software there is no possibility for users to read PMs except the sender and the recipient. So what should happen if a PM is reported?
There is no possibility for a moderator to check the report.
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Thursday, March 15th 2012, 11:18am

Well there is always the possibility to change it to direct message? :-)
So the whole private idea is lost and moderators are allowed to read them :).

Would be nice addition, something for wbb4.0? :-)

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Monday, March 19th 2012, 4:41pm

In VB when you report it, it copies the body of the PM into the email report, thus the moderator can see the PM. The user has given explicit permission for them to view it by clicking the 'report button'. So there shouldn't be any privacy issues, then the moderator can decide what to do.

In this case, a clearly blatant spammer sent me a PM. I imagine they PM'ed other members too. This is mass spamming and if the users don't have an easy way to report it it will just continue.

Just my 2c.

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Monday, March 19th 2012, 7:25pm

Okay, you've agreed and gave the permission, but not the other user of the pms. ;)
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