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Hi per the title, better ask before it happens. Thank you

I don’t know why you want to send private messages instead of publishing the airdrop on the proper board. I would say it would result at least in a warning but I’m sure some moderator will give you the proper answer later on.

I certainly hope so.

If you send me a PM, then you will be the first member to get a red tag from me.

The reason why is that the forum has so many threads and not all participants in other Airdrops will see it. So it might be good idea to send message to them privately because there is no public tagging system here..

Maybe somebody should start an opt-in mailing list for new airdrops then.

That's called spam, and it is the reason Newbies can now only send 2 PMs per day.

If it's unsolicited and they report the messages, then yes.

Actually I'm getting more and more PM spamming from users for bounties. (4 last week)

That must have been due to the fact that you have registered to some of the bounty and you are identified as the interest group.

Anyway, it can be annoying sometimes

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As hilarious mentioned, report those PMs as unsolicited spam/advertising.

I see a business opportunity, but I'd need a bot to send the PMs.
I can send 120 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2536728.msg25872334#msg25872334) PMs per hour, 1200 per day, to 30 recipients each. That's 36,000 recipients.
If I get my LoyceBot a Copper Membership, I can have 14 recipients per PM, 80 per hour and 600 per day (total 8,400 recipients).

I can imagine services would be willing to pay for this. Scraping an opt-in thread is easy. If someone can recommend a PM-bot (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4444647.0), I'll create an opt-in for airdrop PMs.

I'm going to have to set myself up as a new projects consultant here 😎

Are you being sarcastic? I will instantly report any PM coming from a bot.

That's even worse. Basically, you will be paid for spamming PM's with unsolicited advertisements.

Is it spamming if you are sending messages to an opt in list
I'd rather they did that than spammed the boards

Oh I almost missed that opt-in part. If members have subscribed for the service then it's totally fine to send them a PM.

@Loyce - The best way to do it without a lot of programming would be Selenium Web Drivers. I had a similar situation a few days back where I'm suppose to forward the same message to a number of contacts on WhatsApp. I used a Selenium Web Driver to open What'sApp Web which reads the contacts from a data file, searches them in the WhatsApp list,if found a message is sent to them.Took me about 3 hours to set everything up.

No. I think you've overlookd Jet Cash' quote: "somebody should start an opt-in mailing list".

Me too! That's why all PMs will show a link to the opt-in thread. To opt-out, simply delete your own post from that thread.

It won't be unsolicited of course. I didn't turn into a spammer after reporting thousands of spam bots (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3612774.msg37180866#msg37180866).

By definition it's not spamming after an opt-in.

Thanks, I'll look into that. My ideal solution would work from the command line though, as it gives me most flexibility.

Don't forget to send me my 15 percent if it starts to make money 🏛️

You got your answer, OP.  Yes you can get banned for doing this, and don't think that people won't report spam PMs.  I've gotten a number of them and I think I've reported them all.  That's one of the things the mods take seriously on bitcointalk and one of the things that'll earn you a ban.  Just don't do it.

I've probably received less than a dozen spam PMs in the 3+ years I've been here, which actually isn't too bad.

Ok noted with that. Thanks for all the feedbacks and advices =)