9/27/2011 12:47 PM | |
Joined: 1/17/2007 Last visit: 8/21/2024 Posts: 1545 Rating: (537) |
Misuse of the private message facility. I have started to get a number of requests for help / assistance via private messages. Have my my fellow experts also noted this? Users should not use the private message facility for this purpose for the following reasons. 1) It is not what the private message facility is provided for. 2) It limits the advice just to one expert / user. Why limit yourself like this? Surely it is better to get advice from a number of experts / users, as it is not always certain that one person will know the answer. 3) It prevents other users from the benefit of seeing the problem and solution. Thus this means that other users cannot search for a answer to a similar / same problem and so have to ask the question again. 4) If that expert is away (at site, on holiday etc.) then it may take longer for you to get a reply. Splitted from Tips&Tricks for the forum usage. |
Last edited by: O_Moderator at: 10/10/2011 1:53 PMnew subject after splitting Programming today is the race between software engineers building bigger and better idiot proof programs, and the universe producing bigger and better idiots. |
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9/28/2011 9:44 AM | |
Joined: 4/24/2009 Last visit: 8/20/2024 Posts: 2682 Rating: (135) |
Hello together, if you get private messages from other users which you want to be imported by us (=Import-User-1) please send them to CS Moderator. We will then publish this question and iform the user which asked the question about it. I think this is the best way to handle with these questions, because they are then open for everyone and the community can see them and maybe the discussion will also help other users. Best regards O_Moderator |
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10/12/2011 11:38 AM | |
Joined: 10/7/2005 Last visit: 9/22/2024 Posts: 3021 Rating: (1054) |
Dear all let me start by saying that I fully agree with smiffy's assertions. As for what to do when you get a technical enquiry via PM, I keep it quite simple and reply back as a matter of principle with the following: Dear xyz unless you have done so already, I suggest that you post your question in the forum.
As such my request for an enhancement of the PM facility would NOT be a button to forward the techncial PM to the Moderator for postingwhohave enough to do with actual moderation. Instead I'd like a button that allows the pasting of a configurable reply message (just to save me the copy/paste "effort" of the above reply). |
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7/1/2013 8:18 AM | |
Joined: 10/3/2010 Last visit: 9/20/2024 Posts: 1562 Rating: (191) |
Just received a question about C-script from sChaudhuri:
Replied something like this:
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5/27/2014 2:57 PM | |
Joined: 4/24/2009 Last visit: 8/20/2024 Posts: 2682 Rating: (135) |
New post splitted to Make an attachment option available in PM. Best regards O_Moderator |
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