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    Dark Angel123
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    Post by Dark Angel123 January 31st 2015, 3:25 pm

    What's up? Its been a while. Anyway I need to ask you one question. One academy (not sure should I name it) advertises itself through pm spamming on other acadamies. So, they make account on certain academy and then send pm to all users on that academy about their academy, their events etc. etc. at the end of pm there is academie's link. They are doing that to all active forumotion academies and many people are complaining about it, so I decided as owner of one academy that has same problem to report it. They are not even affiliated with academies they spam.
    So I want to know are there any sanctions about it because I think that is really not fair. Are there even sanctions for that, and if yes, what is the biggest one they can get.
    If you need any evidence I can get it quite easly, and I've got many witnesses. 
    Ty on your time.

    https://help.forumotion.com/f14-art-culture  < And one other question, why can't I make topic here? It writes that only admins can make topic there but I see many topics there made by normal users like me.


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    Solved Re: Spam through pm

    Post by _Twisted_Mods_ January 31st 2015, 3:40 pm

    sorry but fights,wars,arguments ...w/e the issue is between two sites no one here will get involved in it .. the most you can do is report there site if they are breaking forumotions TOS

    there are some ways to prevent them from spamming so much

    goto acp>general>security

    Unauthorize members with less than a week registration to post external links and emails : Yes

    Flood control. Delay between 2 messages, topics or private messages by a user.: set it to like 2 or 3 mins they are not gonna want to wait 3 min per each user to send a msg take 30 mins to msg 10 users

    IP address accounts creation limit, for each 24 hours : 1

    SAVE/Submit


    then goto acp>general>message and emails>private messages

    Minimum posts before sending private messages : set this to like 5

    Save/submit


    thats about best you can do
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    Post by Guest January 31st 2015, 5:25 pm

    _Twisted_Mods_ wrote:sorry but fights,wars,arguments ...w/e the issue is between two sites no one here will get involved in it .. the most you can do is report there site if they are breaking forumotions TOS

    there are some ways to prevent them from spamming so much

    goto acp>general>security

    Unauthorize members with less than a week registration to post external links and emails : Yes

    Flood control. Delay between 2 messages, topics or private messages by a user.: set it to like 2 or 3 mins they are not gonna want to wait 3 min per each user to send a msg take 30 mins to msg 10 users

    IP address accounts creation limit, for each 24 hours : 1

    SAVE/Submit


    then goto acp>general>message and emails>private messages

    Minimum posts before sending private messages : set this to like 5

    Save/submit


    thats about best you can do

    Thanks for the update. But what they really did is use the CONTACT FORM. Switch it off.

    ACP >> General >> Messages and E-mails >> E-mails and contact form
    On the right side, now turn Contact Form, Activate : NO and hit SAVE. That's it.
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    Post by _Twisted_Mods_ January 31st 2015, 6:54 pm

    with or without the contact forum you can still goto create a new pm
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    Post by Dark Angel123 January 31st 2015, 8:29 pm

    and one more question
    https://help.forumotion.com/f14-art-culture  why can't I make topic here? It writes that only admins can make topic there but I see many topics there made by normal users like me.
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    Post by _Twisted_Mods_ January 31st 2015, 8:33 pm

    the permissions are probably set wrong ill pm 1 of the mods because im having the same issue
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    Post by SLGray January 31st 2015, 8:36 pm

    Please start a new topic for issues that are not related.



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    Post by Ape January 31st 2015, 8:38 pm

    Dark Angel123 wrote:and one more question
    https://help.forumotion.com/f14-art-culture  why can't I make topic here? It writes that only admins can make topic there but I see many topics there made by normal users like me.
    Them posts are moved there by the Manager's
    you can not post there until the staff move your post there.
    _Twisted_Mods_ wrote:the permissions are probably set wrong ill pm 1 of the mods because im having the same issue

    No need to pm a staff member the settings are right Wink



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    Post by _Twisted_Mods_ January 31st 2015, 8:41 pm

    yea i was editing my post when you posted that ape i didnt notice it was in promo section

    go here to submit ur forum https://help.forumotion.com/t5855-forum-presentation-proposals  be sure you read rules and so on first for that section
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    Post by Dark Angel123 February 1st 2015, 8:47 pm

    ok thanks a lot
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    Post by SLGray February 1st 2015, 11:24 pm

    [b][Topic solved and archived/b]



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