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Why can't I send a Personal Message or change my profile picture?


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"New Members" on GTAForums have certain restrictions on their accounts. This is to protect the community from spam and other unsolicited behaviours. After participating around the forums, these restrictions are automatically lifted.

 

However, we've noticed a lot of topics lately from members frustrated about being unable to use the PM system, and we understand that sometimes you just need to send a message without making a post, for example if you want to join a GTA Online crew, ask someone about their topic, or get help from staff.

 

If you feel you need to use the PM system but are unable to do so because you're a "New Member", please let us know in the private Court House subforum or in this topic and we'll see what we can do for you.

 

 

 

 

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ṼirulenⱦEqừinox

To add a little more information  to this for those who don’t need to urgently send a message but just in general.


You can be upgraded from New Member to Member by simply making 20 non-spammy post on threads around the forum.

 

Once you’ve reached your 20th post PM will automatically unlock for you 🤙🏼

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11 hours ago, JoniTbogt said:

i just wanna change my profile pic lol

To do that, make 20 posts

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20 posts to change profile picture is this a joke? first forum i see not allowing new members to change profile picture.

if some people use include sexual content in their profile which is against forum rules might use an AI to filter the images or what i would do, dont care about it at all. They want to use an image, so let them do it.

 

How bad can it be?

Now im just a new guy on this forum checked my profile settings to finally realise im not the first person who cant figure out how to change profile picture.

 

To be honest i understand why you took this decision but it is in fact a little ridiculous.

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On 4/4/2021 at 7:01 PM, JaeDan 101 said:

To do that, make 20 posts

 

  Oh..... wow... So that's why I can't add a pic...  I thought it was me browser. lol!

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On 2/20/2022 at 9:45 AM, sifu said:

More than 20 Posts in but yet I'm unable to send a PM. Why is that?

It's working now. Cool!

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On 2/20/2022 at 9:45 AM, sifu said:

More than 20 Posts in but yet I'm unable to send a PM. Why ist that?

"why ist that", haha, gotta love that auto spelling correcting typing thing with phones these days....*sighs*

anyways  different day same sh*t. does a mod have to tick a box here so I get validated as "not-a-spam-bot"? just tried to write a PM to no avail.

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3 hours ago, flow_42 said:

"why ist that", haha, gotta love that auto spelling correcting typing thing with phones these days....*sighs*

anyways  different day same sh*t. does a mod have to tick a box here so I get validated as "not-a-spam-bot"? just tried to write a PM to no avail.

 

I mean I don't remember you getting unbanned so I don't expect you to get any favours when it comes to moving you into the main members group early. 

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5 hours ago, Jason said:

 

I mean I don't remember you getting unbanned so I don't expect you to get any favours when it comes to moving you into the main members group early. 

good morning to you too "Jason" ;) how are you? I saw you won a medal for best debater or something along those lines, good for you mate.

 

so you recall our last get-together in the courthouse? you remember me being banned for the 3rd time, without ever breaking a rule I might add, while in the middle of trying to discuss these very much unprecedented (at least in my view) IP bans?

when I asked which rule(s) I might have broken (and got no answer) when I explained the laptop I was using is not available to use forever, when I already agreed to staying away from certain topics and not expressing my opinion there - when I was just asking for a way to continue my stay here, saying the conditions I'm given I could and would just obey to from my PC or Phone. when I admitted to mistakes in the past etc.

 

Right now I'm back typing on a laggy PS4 causing the OS to crash every now and then. this post is already a work of at least 20 minutes, and not much has been written - but what else can I do at the moment? I expected to honestly talk the ban-situation through, thus I started that ban appeal. you were around and said something in there, then sivi joined the "chat" and not long after that I was gone, again.

 

I really was under the impression, after talking to RedDagger about the issue beforehand, that there'd be room for discussion when doing such a ban appeal, but really there wasn't much room, if any at all.

 

I apologize sincerely if this is not the right place to address it but you just mentioned it and I wanted to reply to that. sorry for any inconvenience. maybe if you feel that way, instead of deleting this post you could be kind and move it somewhere else instead? by now this post is a work of at least 45 minutes, twice I was close to the PS4 crashing completely, "page not responding" popped up multiple times already. 

 

let me end this here by saying that I assure you I learned my lessons - I'm not looking for and trying my best to stay out of trouble, and since I do want to continue being a part of this community I will not talk about ALL the things on my mind and keep it to myself instead, not take part of discussion in certain topics, when this is what's expected of me. at the end of the day I just wanna talk video games, that's why I joined the forum to begin with, almost a decade ago.

 

peace out!

 

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You haven't been IP banned. Your old accounts are gone but you don't need to keep changing devices. 

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On 1/26/2022 at 4:51 PM, User01 said:

 

  Oh..... wow... So that's why I can't add a pic...  I thought it was me browser. lol!

I thought the same thing.  I was looking everywhere.  Then I had the bright idea to check here lol

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