Spam marked messages still causing lowered response rate.

[kholland65]

I recently got a message that was clearly spam. The person was trying to sell gold. I immediately just blocked them and marked i as spam without replying. however, it seems that since fiverr didn't automatically detect that it was spam, it now counts that is an unreplied to message. 

[smartdezigns]

1 hour ago, kholland65 said:

I recently got a message that was clearly spam. The person was trying to sell gold. I immediately just blocked them and marked i as spam without replying. however, it seems that since fiverr didn't automatically detect that it was spam, it now counts that is an unreplied to message. 

The best way is to always respond to these type of messages like "Hi, Sorry, I'm not interested" etc..

Just respond to the messages and then marked them spam if they are not marked by Fiverr already.