Why do people block private messages??

So all the new members cannot recieve a PM unless the expressly enable it on there profile...

AGREED, but WHY don't they enable it. It is clearly discussed in the FAQ (which we know everyone reads carefully :D )

What is AUP? :D

@TheCPUWizard. I think you have already answered your question. People come to get a solution and then don't stick around much unless they have problems. Those who spend time here, have PM enabled. The people who have a lot of questions to ask never take time to alter their own profile. You will also notice that those who have PM disabled probably were born on November 30th (http://www.dev-archive.com/forum/showthread.php?t=342406&highlight=november+30).

I understand. I have been stumped by the OFF by default quite a few times. Most notably, when some one posts a comment on an article, the poster never gets an email when one answers to it. So, quite a few times I have tried to let them know there is a response by sending a PM and , there you go, PM is OFF !!

Why not post this in Suggestions thread ?

If someone can't figure out how to turn PMs on, then they likely won't be able to figure out how to read them. Thus, if you send a PM to then, it will simply get ignored -- which would be more frustrating than not being able to send the PM in the first place.

Brad!

But if a person receives a PM, the link is diplayed to him/her on the forums page, it's likely that he/she can find it out while browsing.

But you also forget about the Popup that tells you you've got a msg waiting..

What a PopUp is ? ;)

I never knew there was a PM system on this board.

Probably the last time I saw one. Back in the IE days.

What do you mean, we exchanged PM's on Monday of this week. :confused: :confused: :confused:

I wasn't reading also I suppose. I'll enable mine. If I knew how.

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I wasn't reading also I suppose. I'll enable mine. If I knew how.

And yet you posted this before reading the "Before You Post FAQ..." even though it was mentioned right in the thread you are reading. :(

Thanks to all who responded.

For those who may have "jumped" to this part of the thread...

One of the main reasons I asked this, is that without private messages, it is impossible to send gentle reminders to posters about things such as "code tags", or to bring up issues which may be very related to their problem, but not directly related to the thread [often suggesting they start a new thread for the other topic].

Without PM's, the only way is a post in the forum, which by its nature is blatant, and distracts from the content of the thread.

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