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Times and seasons happen to everything in life, and that's what's happening to that feature now. Times have changed and we've to change to match up with it too. I think theymos should put up an option
to block unsolicited PMs, not just the newbies option alone.
What if the PMs aren't coming from newbies? That means the feature won't be able to block such vexatious and scam PMs then?
That's not possible without reviewing all the PMs that people send and receive over the forum and even with that someone can't decide for themselves whether it's we need that or not.
So it's only we need to decide it's unsolcited and we can report no matter who sent the PM and they will be banned and if I remember the incident, one of the most reputed member of bitcointalk received temp ban for sending a PM to someone and the receiver reported it to the admin, leading to that temp ban.
Here's the thread:
Hhampuz Ban Appeal