Spam Group Messages

Is there really no way to prevent all the group spam messages? And the individual messages every time somebody leaves the group they never wanted to be part of either?

You can set your Messages Privacy Settings to Only allow messages from friends. That has worked for me for a long time. I was only added to a group message once before I before I enabled it.

Note: The only acceptable exception is receiving messages from moderators and admins.

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You can set your Messages Privacy Settings to Only allow messages from friends. That has worked for me for a long time. I was only added to a group message once before I before I enabled it.

Note: The only acceptable exception is receiving messages from moderators and admins.

That’s a good suggestion, but too much “brute” force. It also means that some legitimate member who wants to send you a message and isn’t a friend can’t do it. There are much better ways to solve this problem (many listed in this thread) but it is a low priority for the development team.

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That’s a good suggestion, but too much “brute” force. It also means that some legitimate member who wants to send you a message and isn’t a friend can’t do it. There are much better ways to solve this problem (many listed in ths thread) but it is a low priority for the development team.

It can be 'brute' but if that works for him, perhaps a solution. Some members politely ask permission first instead of simply sliding into one's DMs. Although, that can be tricky for those who are only into stories and never venture into the chatroom. I was thinking, if he can send the nonfriend member a message first without being friends, he can 'override' that setting. Somehow similar to the chatroom private messaging if the messaging is disabled.

It is about time the developers made this priority, had too many group messages that I have never agreed to

This is getting really annoying , i have set my messages to friends only and will see if this works also people following dont need an invitation they just follow there should be an enable and disable option this is also really annoying

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This is getting really annoying , i have set my messages to friends only and will see if this works also people following dont need an invitation they just follow there should be an enable and disable option this is also really annoying

it doesn't work

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it doesn't work

That’s too bad. Another avenue cut off.

What is the point of having privacy settings if they dont work !

Thanks all. I have escalated this.

The answer above - privacy settings does not stop the problem - had another today after changing to messages from friends only