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What’s with the limiting of private messages?

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There has always been a limit on the number of Private Messages a user can initiate within certain timeframes.
This is a necessary feature on pretty much any social network or communication enabled service.
It helps to reduce spam, harassment, and other unwanted behaviors from those who may abuse the private messaging feature.

Account Reputation, Account Age and other metrics (now also, VIP status), factor into the calculation of a user's active messaging quota.

The majority of users (95-99%) may never experiience such limitations.
It should only affect those who start New PM conversations at a higher than normal rate.
Since when did that start and how long do u need to wait?
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DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
Messaging depends on your "reputation". The amount of messages vary.

Yet if you get VIP it's "near unlimited" ...

https://similarworlds.com/vip

This has always been apart of the VIP membership since day one.

Recommend you post more as well as participate more in the open.

PMs do not increase your "reputation". Posting and replying in the groups does.

For more about what reputation effects, see the bottom of this FAQ link. It actually effects everything:

https://similarworlds.com/help/57-You-reached-the-limit-of-X-you-can-Y-for-now
backporrch · 46-50, M
@DeWayfarer thanks. Just never had this before and I haven’t really done anything different
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@backporrch they could be fiddling around with the reputation stuff.

This is likely because of the new group creation options which they likely want to adjust.

They have mentioned that not everyone can create groups as well as it's reputation related.
caesar7 · 61-69, M
@backporrch Same here!! 😳
JohnOinger · 41-45, M
@DeWayfarer I wonder when I will be able to message people that I never talked to before again got the limit last night and still have it
DeWayfarer · 61-69, M
@JohnOinger really. 😯 They for certain have been messing around with the reputation.

I hardly get any messages and almost never send them. So it really doesn't affect me.

Yet they did mention in site statistics post that most of the traffic is PMs.

Almost like they were complaining about it.

So they changed the reputation metrics. So it possibly is no longer how many posts, possibly leaning more towards replies.

I'll have to be more observant on coin accumulations to tell. One side goes down so does the other side go up.
@JohnOinger i got it too now conveniently after i said on the post that it was bs lol 😆