[StorageFan]

expressing my explicit disdain for a forum not allowing the edit function out of some SPAM paranoia.

Always refreshing to see the view of people who seem to have no clue how things are on "the other side".

Yes, there are anti-spam measures active on this forum. They were implemented as they are necessary, because from time to time there are some narcissistic a-holes out there who think it is 'funny' to create multiple posts of whatever they believe is relevant on a random internet forum.

If, having to post another measly 5 times before you can enjoy the full workings of our forum, is such an excruciating ordeal for you, then you have my sympathy. It's almost similar to the resistance that people put up these days whenever they are required to wear a face mask. FYI, I'm not one of those people. I see a face mask more like an IQ test.

In short: the anti-spam measures on our forum will be active for some time to come.

Sorry, if I stirred up a hornets nests. I understand the pain created by spammers and of course do not have any interest of seeing spam here in the forum. I also do not want to see admins wasting their valuable private time with deleting the rubbish posted by spammers.

I am just wondering how the plethora of other forums I am subscribed to manages to deal with spam without imposing such harsh measures on their well-behaving members. Are they all just willing to throw in endless hours of overtime to deal with the SPAM or is there maybe a more efficient solution without causing such intense side effects?

Anhow, I would like to contact a member of this forum who - according to his posts - seems to have managed to install the Netflix plugin for KODI on his QNAP.
Since the Netflix plugin section of this forum seems to have been abandoned (at least for the past week), I would like to be able to send him a PM. He accepted my buddy request, but I still see no button where I could write a personal message. If I click on "contact details" I get an empty page.

Is there any friendly way to trigger that person to read my post in > Support > Add-on Support > Video Add-ons > Release -  Netflix Add-on [input-stream]?

Am I missing the right button, does that person not accept PMs in general and there is nothing I can do or do I need to have posted at least 10 posts as well to have earned the right to post personal messages and hence just have to be patient?