10 plus days as a member and over 10 posts yet I still can't send a pm. Why is the messaging system so strict and how do I fix it?

 

The private messaging system is a privilege, and is guard railed to protect members from scammers.

It is nothing you have done (that we can see). It is also doubtful that you can fix it, but if you could fix the root problem, which is essentially evil, in the form of scammers, the entire internet would celebrate your victory, and then PMs could be made available immediately upon joining forums such as this one.

Until then, tonight I did manually override your account settings (a second time, in a different access parameter than before).

More specifically, yours is the first case of an auto-moderated user where we have encountered a freeze in user group status even after manually authorizing all posts, and manually overriding user post count, in order to upgrade user title status (where user title and matriculation into a more privileged user group are linked).

Since your user title status successfully updated with your increase in post, everything appeared to be working, and we were simply waiting for you to reach the minimum days of membership.

As I mentioned to you earlier today, I expected your PM privileges (aka user group status) to automatically update either tonight or tomorrow morning. Some status updates are not instant, but are part of an overnight polling process that refreshes the database during low usage hours.

However, to expedite your access to PM's, I have now also manually changed your user group status this evening, that otherwise normally updates with duration of membership and user title status.

 

i thought PM privilege was 10 days and over 25 posts?