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Originally Posted by Mr.Right
There are some webmaster forums (vBull based) that have Private Messaging.
It's a very handy feature (for actual webmasters who do business, etc)
I'm wondering why GFY doesn't have PM feature enabled.
Is it because it eats up a lot of server resources?
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I run it on all the vBulletin installs that I use and I don't see a major use of resources from it.
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Every board that has them, gets spam through them. With that, I turn off all forum email notifications, I get enough trash mail without 50 forums spamming the piss out of me too.
A few months back I noticed a forum I visit as well had several PM's sitting in it, I went and looked around and noticed I have several board accounts with PM's in them. Half the ones I did check was spam crap.
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You can disable members from using PM in vBulletin until they reach a certian post count. You can also limit the number of PMs that someone can send at one time. It's not worth it for a spammer to send one PM to each person vs bulk.
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Originally Posted by EscortBiz
no clue about the reason gfy dont but here are the benefits of no PM and no Email notices
No PM = more talk on forum itself = more reasons for others to chime in
No Email notice of new message = forces people to come back to check if there is a new response = good chance they will see other thread and comment on that etc
Other things to do to build a huge message board (even thou its 99.9% fail) is to have few sections, ever go to a new board and it has 50 categories
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You can allow members to turn off the ability to receive PMs and/or email notifications of the PM or restrict them from being able to change that setting.