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Has anybody ever gotten a pm dealing with harassments?I have...I even used the ignore buttom but it wont work. I am tired of these typse of pms. The reason why I am telling you guys this is cause Im letting you know that you aren't the only one who gets them. Anyone else agree with my rant?Like in other words if you get a pm by saying "Why arent you talking to me or do you want to be my friend?"As they pm this to you a thousand times if ya get my drift. Even if you talk back to them by yelling to go away or stay away from you, they just keep doing it*sighs*why do some people have to be this way?Why I ask?

I completely agree, and I'd very much like that you report those PM's by taking an UNEDITED screenshot and sending it to me containing the name and message of the sender.

Okay and I will thanks wolflux

No problem.

And that goes for the rest of you BS'ers as well; report harassing PM's instantly, and don't delete them from your PM box in case we'll need further details. The Screenshot should contain both the sender's name, time and date of the PM and the message. If you have to, take multiple screenshots to get the entire message, upload them to a file manager (I reccommend sendspace.com ) and send the link(s) to a mod.

I think this is a good rant that I came up with cause I dont want to see others get in trouble like me.

Working on getting through to Steet with enabling the report PM feature. But French laws makes it a bit difficult (PM's are illegal to forward to anyone but the receiver and sender in France). And since BS is hosted in France...

Why don't we just show them how to do it?

It may help if somone was to put something on the site that shows a member exactly what to do if they are reciving harassment PMs. I know it may sound very easy and simple, but like JerseyCaptain some people don't know how to do it.

For example, just something simple along the lines of...

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If you are reciving harassing Pms that are worring you You must report them to a moderator at once.



Step 1: Log in to your account and go to Private messages.



Now open up the Pm(s) that are worring you. Remember DO NOT delete them until you have shown them to a mod.



When your on the right page, to copy the full screen you must click on the Print Screen SysRq button, as seen on the keyboard. Sorry for bad image qulity >.>

NOTE: Where the button is located on your keyboard may vary depending on which type of keyboard you own, but I'm sure you will find it if you take a look



Now just open up a painting program and click 'Paste' Save the picture I would recomend as a .PNG. Do not Edit the screen shot in any way! Do not worry if the message contains swearing e.t.c just leave it as it is.

Now from there you can upload the picture on a image hosting website get the link to the picture and send it to a mod in a PM. Or you can go to private messages and upload and image from there.

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Or somthing along those lines... You get the basic idea ._.

Report report report. Protect yourself, and those around you.

As for the pm feature, yes, very useful, and already suggested.

As to the french law - no wonder. Pms are SUPPOSED to be private and only be between the sender and the reciever. I suppose that's where individual judgement comes in. Adding a report feature would take away some of the definition of pms, and make them quite sterile. Yet I suppose that can only lead to better for the members in the long run.

Screenshotting is a pretty efficient process.

I agree with this, although there is "Need help? Click here if you wish to contact a moderator!" under the pm box, although adding in a little more something about serious problems would help. Some members seem to regard this "report feature" as technically based, and assume that harassment through pms is a personal problem the member has to deal with by themselves.
This would be sufficient, and once the member contacts a moderator, the moderator can tell them how to take a screenshot and so on if they don't know. Typing in how to take screenshots might just be overdoing it.

Thank you everyone for helping me support my rant about harrasment pms. Like I said in the previous posts, I would like to help out anyone who needs it if they were in my situation...