Why completely new users can DM other people on the forum?

A guy that created his account 30 minutes ago just DMed me to go kill myself.

It makes zero sense to let completely new users DM other forum members, please change that.

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was it @Everythingisascam ? The guy just went mental on me. Apparently thumbs downing his post, which was basically puking FUD was to much for them.

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I just deleted that user. :headstone:

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Yes, same dude.

guy was a total clown. Sorry you had to deal with that BS as well.

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Yeah it’s a problem. Someone accused me of being Daniel Micay from the Braxman thread earlier and sent in an essay. Of course that was funny, and what you got was horrible. Sorry you had to see that.

Message if you wanna read it

Hi. Firstly, apologies if you find me quizzing people in that way to disover why they think and say as they do, so irritating. If someone says to me ‘this person makes alot of stuff up’, my natural response is ‘ok can you give me an example’, especially when I have not found it so. That way, I endeavor to have beliefs based on some rational basis, rather that What Someone Told Me. And it could make me focus on statements made etc, that I might not have otherwise noticed. You might not be surprised to find, that I have found people react quite negatively to having their own beliefs challenged, no matter how openly that is expressed. I certainly won’t be touching the subject of Him, again on this forum. I get it loud and clear that there is universal, and highly emotional, dislike of Him. Which may be warranted, but at this point, my jury is out.

Secondly, as I noticed He has a very recent video on YT discussing de-googled phones and a quick summary of those available, I watched it for interest in that, and to make a further assessment as to whether unwarranted claims are being made.

I will put the link below, but I honestly laughed out loud to myself when I came to his assessment of GrapheneOS. It is around 16:30, and particularly after 17:00. Especially in view of the way I have been spoken to on this forum. Let me be clear: I am NOT AT ALL asking for you to confirm or deny, as that would be a/ very rude and b/ pointless, but I couldn’t help noticing that despite your anonymous sounding moniker here, your X moniker is GrapheneOS, so good chance you are Daniel Micay. Or at the very least, closely connected. In either case, His comments in his video did have quite a ring to them :slight_smile:
Cheers

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I dont think there is a global setting to change this.
You can however change who can message you in your profile settings if you like. Otherwise just report and we take care of it.

And i am sorry this happend to you. Lately we had to ban quite a few accounts in the same day they joined the forum.

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Some old school forum have “ranking” system, members in lowest rank (e.g. made less than x nos. of comment) can’t DM other user.

Not sure if it can be done here. But reporting system seems working fine for now.

Damn Daniel you got exposed. :upside_down_face:

@Valynor well done :slight_smile:
BTW: having word scam as part of nickname, well, should be telling…