PM limitations

[bigvissch]

Can someone please explain why I am only able keep three or so PMs in my inbox?

[Gabriel]

Check your outbox
I think they are all added up to a max of 60 messages combined

[doug3030]

I think that when you first join you can't keep too many messages but the capacity of your PM boxes increases with posts made.

This serves the function of making people post nonsense just so that they can get a manageable PM service.

Cheers

Doug

[Sturdee]

This serves the function of making people post nonsense just so that they can get a manageable PM service.

Cheers

Doug

I thought that was to encourage participation on the forum and also if a spammer got through to stop them immediately spamming a lot of members by way of pm's.

Peter.

[ubeaut]

This serves the function of making people post nonsense just so that they can get a manageable PM service.

Posting nonsense to get more privileges usually gets the posts deleted or the poster banned as it is often a telltale sign of a spammer or other ne'er-do-wells.

I thought that was to encourage participation on the forum and also if a spammer got through to stop them immediately spamming a lot of members by way of pm's.

As Peter rightly said above. You earn the right to more privileges on the forums by genuine participation, one of those privileges is more PM capacity.

Giving the ability to send out 60 messages to a new member is like giving the forums over to the spammers and scammers to do with what they like. It has happened before where a newbie has sent out a few dozen pm's in their first half hour on the forums before being caught. But by then the damage is done as members have gone to toxic sites and been infected with malware, trackers and worse.

I make no apologies for limiting the number of pm for new members.

Can someone please explain why I am only able keep three or so PMs in my inbox?

For now the best avenue is to empty out or save the pm's regularly until you have more privileges by posting more.

Cheers - Neil

[aarggh]

I kinda think it would be good though if a newbie posting something for sale could receive more PM's than they can send, so they could at least get responses from fellow forum members regarding what they've posted? Assuming you can set different quota's on incoming/outgoing that is?

cheers, Ian

[Sturdee]

I kinda think it would be good though if a newbie posting something for sale could receive more PM's than they can send, so they could at least get responses from fellow forum members regarding what they've posted

Responses from forum members should be done in the sale thread in accordance with the rules of the Market place.

Rules for posting in The Market Place Forums

Major Rule.
All correspondence between Buyers and Sellers is to be done through the board. PM's and Emails are for exchanging personal contact information only once a deal has been done.

Anyone found flouting this will have their posts deleted.

So the capacity to receive a few PM's is all that is needed to use the Market Place.

Peter.