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I was wondering if anyone knows if a report, or API exists that would allow me to see PM's sent by users on a daily, or hourly basis? I know there is the generic PM's sent in Community Admin > Metrics but it doesn't help here since it does not provide any user detail - it's just a 'total sent community wide' We are dealing with some determined PM spammers so instead of members having to report abuse I'd like to be able to check and see which accounts have been sending PMs, and how many. A spammer will stick out for sure such as User2 here. Granted they may be legit messages a eport like this at least lets me know who to look at.... User1 - 1 PM sent User2 - 18 PMs sent User3 - 3 PMs sent User4 - 1 PM sent

tyw

@mdfw , I did not get a answer but it looks like @srujanayeruvaka provided some guidance that I'm going to check out shortly. Thanks @srujanayeruvaka!

tyw

Can I ask why you wouldn't want them to know? If they are submitting content that is considered spam is that something you could coach them on versus hiding? Correcting the problem instead than working around it a better long term approach? As per the Q, I don't think this is possible OOTB but there custom work might allow this? If these are just spammers and coaching isn't an option take a look at system measures, is there a common email domain being used that you could ban, is email verification required? What are your flood control settings?

tyw

We allow all users to edit a post up to 120 minutes after submission. We get a lot of spam, and unfortunately new users who make 3 to 4 edits on their first post frequently get auto-spammed. The spam engine must assume these folks are up to no good so this is something to watch for. One thing we noticed is that with the default spam banner messaging we had a lot of angry first time users reaching out asking why we spammed their post if they had made a few edits. Changing this spam banner to indicate we use a automatic spam filter improved and encouraging them to send a report reduced their anger significantly. As per folks reaching out down the road to request an edit... I think this happened 10, maybe 15 times over the last 12 months.

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I'm looking for feedback if I'm on the right track here. We have a very popular discussion board but find ourselves removing topics, oor specific posts from the board every so often after it gets indexed by Google. I'd like to have the board index by Google still but would like to avoid Googlebot indexing topics and posts within the board - more or less I want the board listing to appear in Google only. Would two these two robot changes do the trick? Disallow: /t5/BOARDNAME/*/m-p/* Disallow: /t5/BOARDNAME/*/td-p/*

API to see PM's sent by user?

Re: Spam Quarantine - Who marked as spam?

Re: Content filter mark as spam?

Re: Allowing users to edit their posts - for how long?

Robots - Index a board, but not the topics or posts within?