Please limit tells

[FunkyBunch]

That happens every time SE does their account bans. For the next week we have to clean up our black lists for the wave of new spam accounts. It's basically having a solution that is part of the problem.

If you didn't use a friend code, you don't get to use tells on new accounts until you're level 20.
You are limited to tells to 5 different players per minute.
Sending the same message as a tell 5 times results in lockout. 10 times results in auto suspension.
Second offense, auto-ban.

[MaeIsMean]

Sending the same message as a tell 5 times results in lockout. 10 times results in auto suspension.

They already get around this by adding the spam letters at the end of the message.... which honestly is a failure of the filter to not recognize that 197 of 200 characters are exactly the same, but I'm hopeful that they will be able to adjust it to recognise a message that is more than 75% identical, but we'll see.

If we're gonna limit tells to level 20 for brand new characters, then there needs to be an explanation when they first log in so they don't find out the hard way.... also, they should not be able to RECEIVE tells in that time either, save them from spammers