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   dudecon Member
   If you really want to keep spammers out, but allow paying customers to use the forums, then link the ability to send messages to new members to something costly, like the user's lifetime successfully billed spending, or their sales. Preventing us from talking to our customers (and yours) is shamefully ludicrous.

    

   dudecon, Nov 6, 2017

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   mkroeker Well-Known Member
   That suggestion does not solve the problem of potential first-time customers wanting to hire a designer, or even just trying to ask a designer for e.g. a rescaled or slightly modified version of an existing model they saw in the designer's shop. (IMHO a lot of the recent antispam attempts are misguided - when I suddenly have to solve two captchas in a row to even log in I may not even bother with the site depending on my mood)

    

   mkroeker, Nov 6, 2017

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   stannum Well-Known Member
   But Google Car needs training!!! /s
   
   BTW, reCaptcha has been broken multiple times. And if they are humans, they should pass. Thus explaining why frogs and metals fail sometimes.

    

   stannum, Nov 6, 2017

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   seriaforma Well-Known Member
   I seem to be unable to send a pm. Can't even click on envelope icon.

    

   seriaforma, Nov 9, 2017

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   dynath Member
   I'm having this same problem when I try to send links to a customer who asked me for a the link to my own product. It's quite frustrating frankly.

    

   dynath, Nov 14, 2017

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   baldylox Member
   bump, old topic. i recently starting having this issue. turns out, when my vpn was on, that was the problem. turn of vpn, problem fixed.

    

   baldylox, Mar 10, 2018

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   dynath Member
   I've not been using a VPN to access anything, though I can see how that would cause suspicion. I had the problem for about a month and then it went away. I suspect my account was flagged for some reason. Not sure.

    

   dynath, Mar 10, 2018

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   DrysdaleWorks Member
   I'm having this problem right now. I was exchanging PMs with a potential customer, and suddenly any response I post is blocked as "spam".
   It wouldn't accept a link to an item on my Shapeways store, for some reason. I've never had a problem with this before. I don't have VPN.

    

   DrysdaleWorks, Jan 11, 2019

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   Giorgio_Montagner Active Member
   I have the same problem, I have to send a link to a customer, but I can't because Shapeways says that it is "spam"

    

   Giorgio_Montagner, Jan 21, 2019

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