I Don't Care If Xenforo Mods Read PMs But...

[Shelley]

Sucks when they don't reply.

Did you forget to enter the pc with your mouth wide opened and your lips lubricated going in with your head rocking back and forth?

 

[DRE]

Wtffffffff

 

[Shelley]

Wtffffffff

You know how when something sounds funny in your head? but when you typed it out, submitted it you thought "hmmm that doesn't read right"? I think this may be one of those situations.

/slaps self

 

[Edrondol]

If you acknowledge the attempt as failed and don't alter the initial post you have my respect. Not every joke flies but you are owning it.

 

[Chris D]

It made me spit my tea out, so it can't have been that bad.

 

[Adam Howard]

The one short coming of talking to anyone on the internet (via text) is you can't hear their tone in their voice. I often think that is one of the large miscommunication problems online that causes some of the most craziest results (outcomes).

I've yet to figure out a solution to that (and I doubt anyone else has either). It's caused me a few issues more than once.

 

[DRE]

I don't know what ya'll r talking about. I'm not offended by anything in this thread. I'm only wtfffin da homo stuff lol

 

[Adam Howard]

yeah, that happens to me alot too. there was a few times on here already, that i was actually being funny/sarcastic.. some took it seriously/ to heart and got bent over it. ruined it all, but shyt happens. it also happens to me in normal chats/messengers too. i have to often explain to them, its joking / sarcasm.. it's how i am in general. most that do know me personally, KNOW how i am, when i say things funny / sarcastic. and laugh their tails off. its a gamble on who's on receiving end of the net lol.

I understand. Who hasn't gotten lost in translation on the internet?

It can actually be a little annoying when you're trying to deliver your "thought" across and the meaning or emotion behind it is either completely lost or misunderstood for something that it's not.

 

[Jake Bunce]

 

[SneakyDave]

IPB is probably just trolling you... just like the 5 other trolls you supposedly fell for

 

[digitalpoint]

Whoever sends "sensitive info" through any "unsecure, privately owned by a third party" messaging system on a website is well... Kind of silly.

Best rule of thumb is just assume everyone can read what you write. Then you aren't surprised when someone does.

 

[DRE]

It's bound to happen on sites like these where people need help. Login credentials etc. So I wouldn't say silly. It's normal. Silly is not changing the pw after you get help and giving the same pw to more than one person.

 

[digitalpoint]

For sake of transparency, I should also let it be known that I have indirectly skimmed people's PMs before... Not because I wanted to read anything that they had to say or cared about what user sent/received it. But in the past, I've dealt with people creating 1,500 accounts to send PM spam with (to get around the timeout between sending PMs), so a query against the PM database with the URL they were spamming was used to "search" for PMs.

Just to be clear, I've *never* read PMs just because I wanted to see what they said or what a particular user was saying (we get around 15,000 PMs/day passing through our system... I have better things to do than to read people's PMs). But I *have* queried for specific keywords against the whole PM database to find spammers.

 

[DRE]

For sake of transparency, I should also let it be known that I have indirectly skimmed people's PMs before... Not because I wanted to read anything that they had to say or cared about what user sent/received it. But in the past, I've dealt with people creating 1,500 accounts to send PM spam with (to get around the timeout between sending PMs), so a query against the PM database with the URL they were spamming was used to "search" for PMs.

Just to be clear, I've *never* read PMs just because I wanted to see what they said or what a particular user was saying (we get around 15,000 PMs/day passing through our system... I have better things to do than to read people's PMs). But I *have* queried for specific keywords against the whole PM database to find spammers.

Can you show us how to do that?

For spam-defense purposes of course.

 

[Jake Bunce]

Can you show us how to do that?

For spam-defense purposes of course.

SELECT *
FROM xf_conversation_message
WHERE message LIKE '%www.spamurl.com%';

 

[DRE]

SELECT *
FROM xf_conversation_message
WHERE message LIKE '%www.spamurl.com%';

Thanks!

 

[DRE]

I have private messages from my site disabled for noobs because PM spam is just annoying as thread and profile page spam.

I used to use automatic upgrades after a certain amount of posts and registration days for noobs to have pms.

But I don't do that anymore due to a threat worse than spam. Internet predators. Chicks on my site seem to attract weird stalkers.

 

[tafreehm]

Yeah I swear if anyone finds out my underwear size, Slavik, I will not be happy

LMFAO !! you had a conversation with someone at Xenforo about your underwear size ? lol

 

[Slavik]

LMFAO !! you had a conversation with someone at Xenforo about your underwear size ? lol

Its the underground circle we have, we find people of the same underwear size and swap underwear for a week.

 

[Jake Bunce]

me -> http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002EVPG2A/ref=wms_ohs_product_img