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Spam Protection

Better protection from spam accounts, with suspicious activity noticed early and held for a moderator, and message requests for first messages from people you have never talked to.

Spam protection today is a few separate settings, such as the delay between new conversations, the word filter and pre-moderation. None of them notices an account that starts behaving like a spammer, so they are being reviewed and brought together into one feature.

New accounts and guests will be watched more closely than members who have been around for a while. Suspicious messages can wait for a moderator instead of being delivered, and moderators get one place to review flagged accounts and clean up after a spammer.

Message requests will let a first message from someone new wait quietly until the member decides what to do with it. Sites that update keep their current settings.