
Originally Posted by
Grashtel
I was under the impression that to help prevent PM spam newbies weren't able to send PMs, is this no longer the case?
There's a strict limit to the amount they can send, but as far as I remember it was pointed out that having such a block made it impossible to make a throwaway account in order to pm the moderators about a problem with the real one. It also made it impossible for new members to answer mails from moderators about behavior that needed changed.
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