New Members and Rehome/Rescue Section

[Merlee]

It's not the responsibility of this forum to vet and decide who are appropriate pet owners or not. That is up to each and every individual who owns a pet and wants or needs to rehome them. We have a post count limit for security reasons and I think 20 posts are more than fair.

What are the security reasons that you mentioned?

 

[Echo]

You are right, long time members are not a guarantee who would make a good owner, but it's one way to weed out the undesireables. It's just a tool.

It's just so irritating to see a brand new member, with zero posts, coming on board and asking to adopt a bird.

I understand where you're coming from. I can't pretend I haven't been suspicious as well when I posted to rehome my birds over the years (I used to foster and find suitable homes) and get responses from members whose only post was to adopt them. From this forum as well as many others I belong to. However, it's my job in that case to "weed out the undesirables", no one else, as what criteria I deem essential might not be the same as someone else's.

 

[Echo]

It's not the responsibility of this forum to vet and decide who are appropriate pet owners or not. That is up to each and every individual who owns a pet and wants or needs to rehome them. We have a post count limit for security reasons and I think 20 posts are more than fair.

What are the security reasons that you mentioned?

Isn't it that if a member posts at least 20 times then you know it's not a spam?

 

[Merlee]

It's not the responsibility of this forum to vet and decide who are appropriate pet owners or not. That is up to each and every individual who owns a pet and wants or needs to rehome them. We have a post count limit for security reasons and I think 20 posts are more than fair.

What are the security reasons that you mentioned?

Isn't it that if a member posts at least 20 times then you know it's not a spam?

Really? There must be more to it than that.

 

[thekarens]

I'm on several forums and the others the reason for a post requirement for private messages is to prevent spam bots. The mods will have to say the reasoning here, but that makes sense to me.

 

[getwozzy]

I'm on several forums and the others the reason for a post requirement for private messages is to prevent spam bots. The mods will have to say the reasoning here, but that makes sense to me.

Yes, if spammers slip past us (mods), the pm limit helps prevent spammers from spamming everyone in the forum via PM. It also encourages new members to converse within threads or start new posts in order to reach the ability to PM others. Most spammers only post a few things and won't stick around for 20 posts.

 

[tab_xo]

That being said there's many longtime members i would rehome to and many i would not. Being a long time member is not a guarantee of a good home.

Thank you... That is perfect..


Just because someone is not a huge user on a forum does not mean they are going to be bad owners... There are few people i would rehome Fargo too

 

[tab_xo]

The 20 posts before messaging is security reasons, as we have had alot of problems in the past of spam being sent through the private messaging..

It just would not stop, so the 20 post limit was put into place, and we have not had a problem since