Private messages are not exempt from community guidelines

Agreed.

Thankfully, this is one place the ignore function works properly - if you don’t want to receive PMs from a user, you can simply set them on ignore. We aren’t going to take action against a user sending a PM that is otherwise within the guidelines when they can’t know if you would, or would not, like to receive a message from them. Set them to ignore, problem solved.

Also, it’s important to note for those who feel vulnerable because of this behaviour, that there is a setting in your Preferences (under notifications) called Allow other users to send me personal messages - disabling this will prevent any non-mod from messaging you.

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