New member messaging limits

This is unlikely to affect anyone, but members will want to know I've changed various limits around member messaging.

Before last week, the limit was 20—by mistake 21—messages per day. I changed it to 10 after a scammer pretended to be a LibraryThing admin and sent out scam messages trying to get members to pay. (They were stopped at 21 members.)

The rule is now:
*10 members per day. You can start conversations with at most 10 different people; an 11th new recipient is blocked.
*100 messages per day. So you can chat a heck of a lot before you're stopped.
*Messages between confirmed friends skip both limits.

I've added:
1. Members may not use "Add to friends" more than 25 times per day. Spammers have tried this before; hoping to get people to look at their profiles.
2. All notices that notify people, such as following, are limited to 50 times per day.

My feeling is that almost no normal member's usage will trip these limits, but they serve as a useful deterrent and firebreak to malicious use.

This all sounds pretty reasonable to me, I never message anyone but I appreciate the heads up anyway.

I occasionally message people, but it would probably be 100 messages per year! And I know I've never messaged as many as 10 people in a day.

I guess I'm just not chatty. ;-))

>1 timspalding: These sound like very reasonable and wise rules to me. Certainly I'll never hit the limits. :-)

So hope that we don't get a sudden influx of authors behaving badly.

Thank you, Tim!

>1 timspalding: Members may not use "Add to friends" more than 25 times per day.

That seems especially sensible.