Where did my inbox go?

[yaustar]

Anyone else have this problem?

[Mariol]

Yeah. I can't see mine either.

[yaustar]

I do remember a few spambots that was mass PM-ing that I managed to ban. If that was the cause then I really wished the admins spoke to the moderators and upped the filters on registering as there have been far too many spammers as of late.

[Adrir]

How are the mods and the admin going to communicate? ^^

[dzeligman]

its like theres no other way to talk on these forums....

[TG1]

Same problem here, inbox is gone, I wonder if the mods are still getting spam reports?

[Gshonk]

Mine is gone too Now we will need to speak in code. Beep boop beep.

[Adrir]

Originally Posted by dzeligman

its like theres no other way to talk on these forums....

It's not exactly private though is it.

[simonc]

Hey guys,

Simon here (GCG publisher) - we've had quite a few more complaints directly to us about PM-based spam, so we're trying to prevent PM-ing for a little while to see if this dissuades the spambots. (We also had to do some editing of people's profiles recently for similar spam-related reasons.)

Anyhow, we may change this back if there is overwhelming consensus that the advantage of member-related PM-ing outweighs the disadvantages of average GCG members getting spammed.

Yaustar and any other admins who'd like to talk about this, ping me at scarless at think-services dot com and I'll loop in Christian (GCG editor) and we'll try to work out some other solution. We're doing a great job of keeping spambots off regular forum messaging thanks to you, it's just the less visible stuff (profile spam, PM spam) that's a bit rough.

Thanks!
Simon.
[Publisher, Gamasutra/GCG.]

[yaustar]

That's a pretty heavy handed approach to solve the problem. Why not just prevent users posting links or sending PMs if they have less then 5 posts?

To be honest, I am far more pissed that the moderators were not consulted or even informed about this at all.