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10-31-2007, 02:15 PM
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Hey fellow SSers!
Have you ever been annoyed by the sheer number of email chain letters that clog up your inbox all the time? Or maybe you like those kinds of things. However, please refrain from doing this via PM here. I have gotten several complaints from people receiving these 'send this to five people' type PMs from members. Let's try to keep our PM boxes SPAM free.
Thanks! Note: If you want to send stuff around to your close SS buddies that's fine. Just don't start sending things to people you either don't know at all or aren't close friends with unless it is part of an admin-approved game.  | |
10-31-2007, 04:22 PM
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| | Snidget
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Far away from you...
Posts: 2,634
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Jake Chatich
First Year | FanFic Enthusiast
Guys, send me stuff! 
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10-31-2007, 05:45 PM
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| | Jobberknoll
Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Mexico.
Posts: 4,063
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Ginny
First Year |
Those chains are annoying and, awfully often, loaded with viruses, since the chain was created to spread them. Watch out everyone!
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10-31-2007, 07:12 PM
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| | Swedish Short-Snout
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: In Your Dreams
Posts: 31,312
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Alex Black
First Year | SS Featured Writer Lovely Lady
Anyone who gets a lot of PMs has no time to bother with that sort of stuff. None of us do, really.
I appreciate the message! I hope people take heed.
I do not forward that sort of thing. Please don't bother sending it to me.
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10-31-2007, 07:59 PM
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| | Puffskein
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: HERE
Posts: 1,591
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Bridget Gails♫♪♫
| California Dreamin'
i've never recieved spam...*sobs* or is that a god this?
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10-31-2007, 08:19 PM
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| | Giant
Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Ferrix: GMT-6
Posts: 56,908
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Moritz Schultz (#0f667e)
Ravenclaw Seventh Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Nancy Schultz (#ac6f77)
Hufflepuff Fourth Year  x11  x1
| curly haired prefect - "sometimes I get angry!" - 30/90 - *chicken emoji* - probably @ Disney - I speak dog
I've never gotten these, but I have gotten stalker PM's  Which I don't like. It's rude and annoying and slightly creepy  But yes, those SPAM PM's never work if they say that something special will happen if you send it to such and such people...so just don't do it, mkay? 
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10-31-2007, 08:43 PM
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| | Puffskein
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Reading my two FF's
Posts: 1,879
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Hufflepuff and proud of it!
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I am willing to get these but I will only send them to people I know!!
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11-01-2007, 02:06 AM
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| | Ramora
Join Date: Mar 2006
Posts: 5,431
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Lukas Brishan Ferdinand
Second Year | Strickles®
I've never got spam like that on SS thank goodness. But I get loads of those in my normal e-mail. | |
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11-01-2007, 07:47 AM
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| | Erumpent
Join Date: Jul 2004
Posts: 34,303
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thats spam, lol.
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11-01-2007, 03:26 PM
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|  Keeper of Dan’s GrinLuvs SiriusK.O. Harry's love for DDPuffskein
Join Date: Dec 2005
Posts: 2,226
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Annushka Sarah Emerzynski
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i nevr get or send such stuff!Lucky Me!!
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11-01-2007, 03:32 PM
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| | Mackled Malaclaw
Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: (CDT) GMT-5
Posts: 11,371
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Asher Stinson
Second Year |
Thanks!! It's hard enough to keep up with the real PMs without adding the super SPAM ones.
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11-01-2007, 07:49 PM
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|  Potterwatch! MommaChizpurfle
Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Yarn Shop
Posts: 10,253
| Viva Buymoria! Love you Twin!
Quote:
Originally Posted by Ginny GL  Those chains are annoying and, awfully often, loaded with viruses, since the chain was created to spread them. Watch out everyone! Actually, chain letters have been around since the middle ages; loooong before computer viruses.
However, you can not get a virus from a private message here at SnitchSeeker unless you click on a link to an offsite location, so don't worry about just opening and reading your private messages, folks!
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11-01-2007, 08:23 PM
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| | Nogtail
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: in a PUMPKIN BOAT!!
Posts: 4,635
Hogwarts RPG Name:
*whistle*
| NeeNee Omniscient Omnipotent Pie Maker
There is little more in this world that annoys me more than chain letters. when i was a kid they were exciting, but back then, it used to be a lot more whimsical, you sent chainletters on with a message to the next person, and it got sent around and around and eventually someone seven time zones away would read your joke or message a long with about 20 others. It's not like that anymore. the luck angle is obnoxious, to say the least. and email chains have gotten dangerous. PM chains are just annoying. i mean, general mail? that was cool once upon a time, but isn't the PM system exactly what it says, "private?" I don't want anyone clogging up MY PM mailbox with chains to forward on, thank you very much.
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11-01-2007, 09:40 PM
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| | Kneazle
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: England.
Posts: 22,372
| I'M A GLEEK! | | Rupert & McAvoy ♥ I'm a Cutie Patootie
I don't get spam PM's but I do get spam emails 
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11-01-2007, 11:19 PM
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Honeydukes Mod
   Occamy
Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Oz
Posts: 63,768
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Ariel Scamander
Gryffindor Third Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Gillyweed Beery
Slytherin Sixth Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
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Hufflepuff Fifth Year
Hogwarts RPG Name:
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Thanks for posting this Rhea.
The PM spams that I have been getting really annoy me, because it wastes my time on SS to just get rid of them all and I also get important PMs that have to come first. So I'd really appreciate it if I didn't get any PM spam. Thank you.
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11-02-2007, 12:28 AM
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| | Chizpurfle
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: EST (GMT -5)
Posts: 10,679
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Finnlay 'Finn' Cameron Muir
Fifth Year x5
| Ravenpuff | Cap'n Crunch | Bedtime Queen | O Minion, My Minion
Fortunately, I haven't had any problems with spam PM's here on SS. But I have had to close accounts on places Mugglenet's CoS Forums because I got sick of dealing with all the spam. Thanks SS for being sensitive to this! -loves on mah mods-
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11-02-2007, 01:46 AM
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| Baffling Bella
Brand New Car! Snidget
Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: PM if you wanna RP!
Posts: 2,767
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Brianna Lynn Bunch
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grrr...don't send me these either!  Quote:
Originally Posted by ----
You have been spotted by a ghost at the castle, send this to five people and the person who sent this to you to get rid of the ghost.
You guys are awesome for posting this thread to discourage this, it's really annoying.
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11-02-2007, 02:50 PM
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| | Norwegian Ridgeback
Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Citi Field
Posts: 45,221
Graduated | David Wright lover TV Show Master
thank you!
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11-02-2007, 08:35 PM
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| | Plimpy
Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: In the TARDIS
Posts: 15,341
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Yeah, SPAM PMs are so annoying, really appreciate this message!! | |
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11-02-2007, 09:29 PM
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| | Moke
Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Canada
Posts: 8,644
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Mathilda Bennett
First Year | Terrified of my Tag Rawr!!!
*despises chain letters*
So painfully annoying.
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11-02-2007, 10:07 PM
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| | Swedish Short-Snout
Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Wangdoodleland.
Posts: 31,294
| Russian Dancing Snake-Twin | Jam Pony Rider | Has Snuffed It!
Hey suck. all there is too it. everytime I get a PM it's usually from a friend, and if not it's something important or a question, but the ones I get from random members that have nothing really to say just waste my time.
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11-03-2007, 12:58 PM
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| | Flobberworm
Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: In the Harry Potter Books
Posts: 17
Hogwarts RPG Name:
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I agree with this because you should keep in mind about other people but I think that if someone like me doesn't mind getting it from friends they can.
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11-03-2007, 01:47 PM
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Tonks' Best FriendChic Chocolat Jobberknoll
Join Date: May 2007 Location: Wales
Posts: 4,031
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Erin Harley
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I've forwarded a couple before so, if you get one from me, ignore it and carry on with your day to day lives, in the knowledge that I apologise. I don't start chain PMs. Only chain UNs, but that was the Maddey-Fying one AGES ago. Sorry guys!
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11-03-2007, 02:29 PM
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| | Mackled Malaclaw
Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Maryland
Posts: 11,247
| Book Club Babe
I sometimes get them, but it's just from my friends so it's ok
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11-03-2007, 04:27 PM
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| DD's Bumble Bee
Tonks' Pink Patronus Puffskein
Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: I live... in my mind
Posts: 2,072
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Draygon Reed
| Moony's 'Furry Little Problem' Cressida, Will, Chandan, Draygon
I don't mind chain-mail, as long as it's from my friends. If it's from my friend to people I don't know, but including me, it really bugs me because then those people get to know who I am/e-mail address; and though I don't find that an issue on SS, it still bugs me if they reply back, but now think they can just talk to me like SNAP. We're friends or something. I'm not like that. My friendships and conversations take time. I always appreciate that.
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