Timeline for Any way to send a personal message to another user?
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| Sep 4, 2015 at 3:16 | comment | added | Kuya | But above all, I really dislike seeing comment threads that have in-jokes and personal chats. I couldn't agree more! Here is a perfect example (and these are high rep members) link to question | |
| Jul 8, 2015 at 8:14 | comment | added | Pharap | @1999 2 years late, nicely done, I forgot I even wrote this. | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 0:15 | comment | added | user259867 | @user227849 Which is why this question, this answer and these comments are not posted on SO. | |
| Jul 10, 2013 at 7:14 | comment | added | Pharap | SO not a forum? Could've fooled me. If I took this question, this answer and these comments and formatted them like a forum, nobody would be any the wiser. | |
| Jul 7, 2011 at 0:55 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | @assaf for that there is careers.stackoverflow.com -- check it out | |
| Dec 28, 2010 at 19:28 | comment | added | Pete | (+1) I think the reasons Assaf gives would increase the value of SO. I believe the site would be most effective by providing a messaging/contacting service and letting the the culture of SO encourage posting a question once there is one to ASK, as opposed to forcing all types of SO dialog to be public and risk polluting the stream with less relevant content. | |
| Jun 25, 2010 at 8:56 | comment | added | devinb | (-1) StackOverflow is not a forum, and it is specifically not designed to be a social website. people who want to be spammed can post their email addresses. Everyone else should be able to use the site in peace. | |
| Jan 13, 2010 at 5:54 | comment | added | Assaf Lavie | The idea is to enable a private message like "hey, please have a look at this question I posted". And to get rid of personal chats as well. I no longer kid myself that SO has any motivation to allow personal messaging regarding job offers. even though it's perfectly reasonable and fair to allow high ranking participants to contact other participants for such reasons. (definitely better than to allow only paid recruiters to do so). | |
| Dec 30, 2009 at 16:26 | comment | added | Engineer2021 | Except that important content that would benefit everyone would then be private thereby circumventing the system. The issue is not private messages like "hey, how are you doing?" - it's "hey, you helped me on this problem last time and I am still having this issue..".. now it is taken offline and no one can benefit from the subsequent troubleshooting | |
| Jun 29, 2009 at 4:28 | history | answered | Assaf Lavie | CC BY-SA 2.5 |