Private Messaging

[nealtw]

I use PMs alot, I think but I am aware this is still the internet and things can get out so I try to write things that wouldn't embarrase me to much if they did.

Can privacy be garrenteed or should it be is my question. For the former we just have to look at Sony and the answer is likely no.

The reason I ask the latter part of the question is we have four members here that have never posted to a thread, theirs or anybody elses, so they are not here to get help or give it. So they didn't meet each other here. We constantly hear about people hiding emails that should be a record of dealings and we can immagine what kind of dealing some would like to hide.

When I thought this was just two people, I figured some married guy has a girlfreind, great. Then when there were three I thought , he's busy with two girls.
BTW there is a fifth that has posted here a few times.
I can't think of any reason five people would use a site like this only for PMs that dosn't sound good when said out load.

Thoughts anyone??

 

[frodo]

admin. needs to have a peek at their pm

if all is on the up and up

leave them be,

 

[oldognewtrick]

Bad people have been abusing technology since the beginning of time couriers, pony express, telegraph, telephone, mail, e-mail you name it. As far as I've seen, there's no way to moderate private messages unless they get reported. People who are intent on doing bad things, personally or socially, will find a way.

 

[bud16415]

My first thought was, say you are a high ranking government official and maybe you don’t want to use the government email system and maybe you have your own server at home that people kind of know about now so you might want to delete a lot of those emails. Looking to the future you could kill two birds with one stone by joining a DIY forum as I hear big old houses painted white require a lot of home improvements and until you move in you could use the PM for emailing a few friends.

Just a thought I could be wrong.

 

[Chris]

I've never been able to access pm's and don't think it is possible.

 

[nealtw]

I've never been able to access pm's and don't think it is possible.

Actually everything that is posted here belongs to whoever owns the site and they can do whatever they please with it. I appreciate they don't make that easy to read and they respect the word private.
Some sites say, they will read them in a case where abuse is reported.

So what constitutes abuse and maybe private isn't the word that should be used.
I guess, if asked, I would give permission in a second for someone to check mine to see if I abuse the system. Like Frodo said, someone could be dissignated to take a peek, just to keep everything on the up and up.

 

[havasu]

Are you referring to what you see when you click on "currently active users" on the main forum page?

 

[Admin]

The top 4 with zero posts have only one or two private messages. We cannot see the content, just the number. So there is really nothing to be concerned about. We are glad to have them, and never know when they will decide to jump in and ask a question or answer one.

 

[frodo]

The top 4 with zero posts have only one or two private messages. We cannot see the content, just the number. So there is really nothing to be concerned about. We are glad to have them, and never know when they will decide to jump in and ask a question or answer one.

DING DING DING

WINNER<WINNER< Chicken DINNER
:banana: :beer: :banana:

 

[bud16415]

I have received PM&#8217;s before from members some new members that never posted but wanted to comment on something I posted or ask a question about something they felt I could answer. There are a large number of lurkers on all web forums that are afraid to post. Human nature I guess?

I always encourage people to go ahead and post something and sometimes they feel welcomed and stay around.

 

[HighRoller]

I have received PM’s before from members some new members that never posted but wanted to comment on something I posted or ask a question about something they felt I could answer. There are a large number of lurkers on all web forums that are afraid to post. Human nature I guess?

I always encourage people to go ahead and post something and sometimes they feel welcomed and stay around.

That is exactly the issue, I just signed up today, but i was never afraid to ask a question or leave a comment. There are people who are afraid to post, fear of being denied or sounding stupid.

 

[oldognewtrick]

Only stupid questions are the ones not asked

 

[beachguy005]

I would suspect that someone started an account in order to post a question but resolved it without the need. I've gotten PMs that were really just spam and I would suspect the same here also.
I think we're now going to refer to nealtw as the boards Gladys Kravitz.:hide:

 

[oldognewtrick]

I think we're now going to refer to nealtw as the boards Gladys Kravitz.:hide:

In today's world you can't be to careful.

 

[nealtw]

The top 4 with zero posts have only one or two private messages. We cannot see the content, just the number. So there is really nothing to be concerned about. We are glad to have them, and never know when they will decide to jump in and ask a question or answer one.

They must be slow readers, they have been reading them for month. Or they are good at deleting them.
It's not hard to see one show up in PMs and then the the rest show up a little later in PMs. Almost every day.

 

[oldognewtrick]

If it was anything to worry about, I'm sure agencies with 3 initials are already looking at them.

 

[nealtw]

I have received PM’s before from members some new members that never posted but wanted to comment on something I posted or ask a question about something they felt I could answer. There are a large number of lurkers on all web forums that are afraid to post. Human nature I guess?

I always encourage people to go ahead and post something and sometimes they feel welcomed and stay around.

I have had lots of those questions in PMs too.

But for what reason would you tell a bunch of freinds to PM you on this site instead of just using email or gmail. Some times this site really slows down and I have sent members my email address to make thing go a little faster. But these guys don't seem to mind how slow it goes.

 

[havasu]

I consider myself fairly knowledgeable working around the house but I can assure all that I learn something new everyday in here. For this reason, I'd like to thank the experts for taking the time to make this such a successful forum.

 

[frodo]

while this thread is going..i would like to ask admin.
if it would be possible to tweak members profiles. to make where they are from
mandatory and displayed under their name.

just the state or country would be good enough. it is hard to answer some questions when you have no idea as to the location
for different building codes

 

[oldognewtrick]

while this thread is going..i would like to ask admin.
if it would be possible to tweak members profiles. to make where they are from
mandatory and displayed under their name.

just the state or country would be good enough. it is hard to answer some questions when you have no idea as to the location
for different building codes

This has been discussed before by management. The consensus was that it's more important to get a question asked than maybe having someone not join the forum by making location mandatory.