Claymore is not happy

claymore

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Claymore not happy

To have been sent a private message from someone called Ann - love yachts - trying to flog ultrasound anti foul system
Anyone else got this?
 

Richard Shead

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To have been sent a private message from someone called Ann - love yachts - trying to flog ultrasound anti foul system
Anyone else got this?

Yes lots of us and I understand she ot he has been banned, I have not been i so I dont know the ins and out but I woudl imagine its a trusted user that has taken time to PM everyone or at least those active users.

This is of course guess work as I cant see any other way they would do it..
 

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Yes lots of us and I understand she ot he has been banned, I have not been i so I dont know the ins and out but I woudl imagine its a trusted user that has taken time to PM everyone or at least those active users.

This is of course guess work as I cant see any other way they would do it..

No new user with no posts to his/her credit. Obviously found that the PM system was a way of bypassing the new user approval procedure.
 

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Yes lots of us and I understand she ot he has been banned, I have not been i so I dont know the ins and out but I woudl imagine its a trusted user that has taken time to PM everyone or at least those active users.

This is of course guess work as I cant see any other way they would do it..

It would be trivial to write a bot to spam PMs all over the place on vbulletin.
 

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I'm disappointed to be left out!
Am I the only one to see the irony, a few days after YBW publishes a video which shows a product not working, someone PMs forum members offering a similar product?
Allan
 

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They have been banned....but feel free to use the Email in their PM to apply for newsletters/subscriptions etc on the interweb on their behalf....I'm sure they'd appreciate them, the same way everyone else appreciated their unsolicited spam:D
 

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No new user with no posts to his/her credit. Obviously found that the PM system was a way of bypassing the new user approval procedure.

It's not now:)

We've limited the amount of PMs a new user can post...The reason we haven't stopped it completely it that some people want to contact others without posting in public or want to buy things on the For sale forum.
 
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