Private messaging feature used by competitor

[Rose123]

My compeititor website registers on my website and sends PMto my members against my website and takes my members away.
Is there anyway I can allow only users with more than 100 posts to send PM. and new users cannot send PM.
Thanks for your time.

[Chimpie]

Change the settings on your main usergroup so that they cannot use private messages.

Then, create a new usergroup that allows private messages with the settings that when a user reaches 100 posts they are promoted to it.

[Rose123]

Thank you for quick reply

[birdie]

I hope this does not sound harsh, but if you are loosing members to a competing forum after the owner of that forum PM's your members, then I think you need to have a long hard look at your own forum and ask yourself why they prefer the competing forum over yours.

[Rose123]

Birdie, thanks for the tips.

[Jobe1986]

I hope this does not sound harsh, but if you are loosing members to a competing forum after the owner of that forum PM's your members, then I think you need to have a long hard look at your own forum and ask yourself why they prefer the competing forum over yours.
I have to say I agree, my reason being, generally users wont follow spam like that, but if they have a reason to leave like your forum not meeting expectations then theyre more likely to leave.

I would however also consider using censoring options to censor your competitors website etc..., as users are even less likely to follow spam if the spam had to go around a filter.

[Rose123]

Thanks for input with different prespective.