Hi everyone,
There has recently been some spam going out in private messages to members of the site. I know that twenty people received messages of this type on Thursday.
This is absolutely unacceptable, and the staff apologizes for the nuisance. If you received one of the twenty sent on Thursday, then that has been addressed.
But now I suspect that more have been sent. If ANYONE has received a spam-like PM since Friday afternoon then please report it to me via PM. I will need the name of the user who sent the message, time it was sent, and a copy of the message's content.
We do not have the capability to read member PMs or even see who someone has sent a PM to, so our success in protecting the members of the site from spam is entirely up to all of you. If we know about it we can deal with it; so please PM me if you received one anytime between yesterday afternoon and today. Likewise, if you receive any such message in the future please report it to me or one of the other staff members as soon as possible. This is a community first and foremost, and we will NOT deal with this.