Theymos: Can we block PMs from Copper-Newbie members?

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I just got a PM from kingsman03, and that account is a newbie one that has a copper membership.  I have my settings such that PMs from newbies should be blocked, and I'm not sure why I got one from him.  Is that a copper member benefit or something?  I don't recall ever reading about that.

I'll lock this thread in a jiffy if I missed something or otherwise get a good answer to my question.

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Shit, I forgot to make this thread self-moderated.

[Master of Shitcoins]

It would be great if we can increase prices to buy a Copper Membership. Copper Member Accounts are a niche which could be abused a lot after the new Jr. Member requirements are introduced. The original purpose of those accounts is as far as I know to enable posting pictures for members to create a Bitcointalk ANN for their project, not to spam signature campaigns...

Members posting an ANN for Altcoins have for sure enough money to buy a Copper Membership.

And this would also solve the PM problem or at least make it better...

[theymos]

How the code is currently written makes copper members equal to either whitelisted newbies or Members, both of which bypass ignore-newbie-pms IIRC. If it becomes a problem, I could change it, but for now: if it's spam, just report it and know that they wasted $10 spamming you.