# of posts to be able to PM

It is a way of keeping spammers off the site. A spammer will not stick around for 50 post.

 

Just as we can blame the lawyers for all the messed up rules and regulations, we can blame the spammers for ruining our fun little internet forum. Hang in there, 50 will come quicker than you can guess.

 

If its important you can ask a moderator or staff to PM for you

 

This made me curious too, although I do understand completely. Has the board owner/admins ever considered goint private? One way to get rid of spammers is to have a private board, admission only by approval, and gradual entry into forums even. Although spammers can still sneak in, they could be reported immediately and membership removed.

Just curious, although I'm sure you probably have had this discussion a dozen times before I came along.

 

This is by far the most active spam free board I have ever seen. Spammers don't last here! You got the 4 thumbs up monkey approval!

 

I can imagine that they have thought about it, but just like with the companies, turnover is pretty high and new folks are coming all the time. Having an open membership has it's benefits that it allows new folks to join (like me) and ask questions.

It would be a HUGE amount of work to have to approve all new registrations, especially with the speculators, students and wannabes.

 

Some Sites you can post a question and a month later no one has seen it. Here you hit submit and there is 3 responses already. Might be two wrongs and then the monkey's reply, but hey!

 

I just hit my 50 today and though I was sometimes impatient to get to send PMs, I understand and concur with the rule. I was a mod on another board for years and I greatly appreciate the difficult and often thankless job that mods do. I also was an admin for a board that a non-profit org started. The spam registrations to real ones ran about 60 to 1. We ended up closing the forum because dealing with them just took too much time.

Here's to the Truckers Report mod team! Y'all do a great job.

HG