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globalwolf2010
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24 Oct 2011, 6:46 pm

Hi. I've been wondering how to report spam content sent in a private message, since there's no simple way to do that. I've gotten messages from three people so far (in a shockingly short time frame) called peace46, binue22, and tsssylove1 wanting me to email them and claiming to be madly in love with me, while obviously having no actual posts. At least one also claims to have viewed my non-existent profile picture, so clearly this is spam.

It isn't a problem for me to just delete spam, but I'm concerned about the possibility of someone getting these and not realizing that they aren't legitimate on a site where some people think extremely literally and might be too trusting.



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24 Oct 2011, 6:49 pm

globalwolf2010 wrote:
Hi. I've been wondering how to report spam content sent in a private message, since there's no simple way to do that. I've gotten messages from three people so far (in a shockingly short time frame) called peace46, binue22, and tsssylove1 wanting me to email them and claiming to be madly in love with me, while obviously having no actual posts. At least one also claims to have viewed my non-existent profile picture, so clearly this is spam.

It isn't a problem for me to just delete spam, but I'm concerned about the possibility of someone getting these and not realizing that they aren't legitimate on a site where some people think extremely literally and might be too trusting.


Thanks for the report. We have two stickies in the top of this forum that are for either reporting spam, or getting a moderator's attention.

Unfortunately, the way things are set up currently we can only really ban the culprits, so we do.

*wonders if there's a peace 47, 48, 49 etc...*


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24 Oct 2011, 7:00 pm

Moog wrote:
*wonders if there's a peace 47, 48, 49 etc...*


Seems like it's probably just a randomly generated combination of numbers, but tsssylove1 is a little bit sketchier. I would check every now and then to make sure that tsssylove2, 3, and 4 don't show up, because I don't exactly think that's a name a legitimate user would choose.

Anyway, thanks for taking that down. Makes me happy that they're not going to take advantage of anyone 8)