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Posted by jw0287 on 04/18/13 - 7:23 AM

Is there such thing as a private message on this site? Or open discussion only? Still trying to figure out the layout of the site, someone just pointed me to the search function yesterday.

Thanks.

Posted by Tom W Clark on 04/18/13 - 2:10 PM

Looks like we ditched the PM feature.

Remember, you can always send an email (which works better anyway and will get a faster response) but if the question or comment relates to boats, why not share it with everybody so everybody can learn from the dialog?

Posted by Tom W Clark on 04/18/13 - 4:12 PM

Ask Joe. I for one do not miss them. I believe they were problematic.

Now I'm hoping Joe can ditch those stupid yellow "auto-smilies" that keep popping up in my posts anytime a punctuation mark gets anywhere near an open or close parentheses.

;-)

Posted by Joe Kriz on 04/18/13 - 4:27 PM

#11

Private Messages are gone.
There are many, many reasons and Tom gave a good one above.

Tom wrote: Remember, you can always send an email (which works better anyway and will get a faster response) but if the question or comment relates to boats, why not share it with everybody so everybody can learn from the dialog?

We really want to keep all public conversations going here, not in a Private Message.
All questions and responses should be carried on here in the discussion areas so we all can see and benefit from such discussions.

Tom, here is a Tip for you and everyone else.
At the bottom of anyone's new post, there is a box.
"Disable Smileys"
Put a checkmark in that box and you will not see a smiley in your punctuation marks before hitting the Post Reply button which is right below the Disable Smileys box.

Edited by Joe Kriz on 04/18/13 - 4:29 PM

Posted by sraab928 on 04/18/13 - 4:44 PM

#12

I am sure people had messages saved for reference - it would have been nice to let people know so they could move the information. But then again - its your playground - not ours.

Posted by Derwd24 on 04/18/13 - 6:13 PM

#13

sraab928 wrote:
I am sure people had messages saved for reference - it would have been nice to let people know so they could move the information. But then again - its your playground - not ours.

X2, I had a number of them...

Posted by jbrc124racing on 04/18/13 - 6:27 PM

#14

Derwd24 wrote:

sraab928 wrote:
I am sure people had messages saved for reference - it would have been nice to let people know so they could move the information. But then again - its your playground - not ours.

X2, I had a number of them...

Posted by CES on 04/19/13 - 6:21 AM

#15

jbrc124racing wrote:

Derwd24 wrote:

sraab928 wrote:
I am sure people had messages saved for reference - it would have been nice to let people know so they could move the information. But then again - its your playground - not ours.

X2, I had a number of them...

Posted by EJO on 04/19/13 - 11:56 AM

#17

so now you(we) need to ask the questions publicly again and get answers for everybody. Not that bad especially if you acted upon them already and have more input for us.
Happy boating.

Posted by Derwd24 on 04/19/13 - 1:24 PM

#18

EJO wrote:
so now you(we) need to ask the questions publicly again and get answers for everybody.

But that wasn't the point of PM's or how most of us used them.

Posted by CES on 04/19/13 - 1:50 PM

#19

PMs were used to exchange phone numbers, addresses etc. that has no business on the public portion of this site. Ya, there's email as joe states above but it's not the same thing.

This is the only boating site I've been on where there's no longer a PM function.

Oh well.