Questions tagged [private-messaging]
Questions related to the topic of private messages to other SE users.
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Private moderator message translation issues
Private moderator message contains several fields, in particular:
from
to
bcc
"from" is used in a lot of situations, and should be replaced here to "от" instead of "из"....
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How to interact with a moderator in this/other sites (technical/specific instructions)
How can I interact with a moderator?
what specific actions are available for interacting with moderators, and
how (literally, which page do I go to, what do I click on, etc) to perform these?
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Why doesn't Stack Exchange have ask to answer facility like Quora? [closed]
Regular users of Quora will be aware that when someone asks a question on Quora, he/she can ask this question to any specific person on Quora using the Ask to Answer facility provided by Quora. But ...
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How to send private messages or locate a specific user? [duplicate]
I'm a 17-year-old girl living in Mexico and dreaming of studying at a university in Romania. I speak Spanish and English and am trying my best to learn Romanian, and I can hardly find anyone to whom I ...
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Welcome message, wrong link
When joining first message in inbox was:
This message links to:
http://stackoverflow.com/users/edit/current
Assume it should be:
http://stackoverflow.com/tour
or similar.
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Follow-up to Private Message with Moderator
A moderator initially sent a private message on Sept. 23 2014 to me, to which I then responded. I still haven't heard back and genuinely need a response, so what can I do? The system prevents me from ...
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Could we clarify that comments entered when not interested in a Careers message will still be sent to the sender?
I received a private message from a company for something I was absolutely uninterested in. I actually was set to allow communications when I shouldn't have been, so this was partially my fault, but ...
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How can I start a chat with a particular user? [duplicate]
While I am searching for answers on the Stack Overflow site, there are some users that know the technology of my concern and have often answered related to the same term that I am asking for.
How do I ...
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Do the moderators/SE employees have some type of private communication channel?
Do the moderators/SE employees have some type of private communication channel?
If yes, how does it work? Is it a private chat? Or a mailing list?
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Why are private rooms that are also frozen/deleted shown to 10k'ers?
Today I got a notification about a user that try to access a Private (moderator only) room, the room served its propose long time ago, it's now frozen (and deleted), but it surprised me that someone ...
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Policy on asking/offering a private solution
Today I saw this question by a relative new user, which was followed by a set of comments requesting clarifications and by a couple attempted answer.
One of the answerers asked OP to email him the ...
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How can I send a private message to someone on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
I cannot find a way of private messaging SO members, is it possible?
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Let highly experienced users sent answers to on-hold questions via inbox?
I think answers for questions that are "on hold" can be sent as private messages to the users' inbox by 'highly experienced users' like moderators or others with high rep, thereby eliminating the need ...
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How can I ask this user a question about their answer if I don't have enough rep to post comments?
In this question I had a question for the last answer provided by this user (Dmitry Dzygin).
I'd like to ask more about his answer but I cannot comment on his answer. I also see that I cannot contact ...
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Vote for Private Messages! [duplicate]
I have an idea! How about we make a fair-and-square vote about whether we should have a private messaging system or not?
You can make a public announcement in the side bar of all the Stack Exchange ...
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How can I see the email addresses of other users on Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Often I ask some question and someone provides very useful answers. So when I ask a similar question, I want to have that person answer it. Or I have an additional question to discuss with them. But I ...
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How can I send message to unique member? [duplicate]
May I send message or ask question to other member? how?
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How can I send a message on this site? [duplicate]
I want to send a message to a user who probably resolved my question to get information. However, I wasn't able to see the "send message" option. Isn't there an option like this?
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How can I contact a moderator in a private setting?
Where can I seek help if I need assistance with contributor-related questions? For the purposes of this question, "contributor" means "user who provides more answers than questions." I.e. how can I ...
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How do I contact a user privately, as a moderator?
As a moderator, I sometimes need to contact a user about his behavior on the site or about other site-related issues.
How can I contact a user privately, as a moderator? What are the possibilities ...
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Feature Request: Video to video responses?
Whenever I go on Stack Overflow I'm always afraid that my questions won't get answered the way I want them to be. I won't get the right answer to one of my questions.
This often demotivates me from ...
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Making Stack Overflow a better place (usability frustrations)
If a person answers with a follow-up question, and the author of the original question replies with a comment - how will the answerer ever know?
If somebody answers my question, will it move to the ...
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How could I notify Stack Overflow's expert users about my new question? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Ask a question and notify users on specific users list
Any way to send a personal message to another user?
When I use Stack Overflow to ask a question, is there any way ...
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Route a question to certain user [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Ask a question and notify users on specific users list
Any way to send a personal message to another user?
Is there any way that a user can route a question or notify other ...
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A proposal for Private Messaging within the Stack Exchange Network [duplicate]
Yes, I know that the request for PM functionality between users within the Stack Exchange Network (henceforth SEN) has been made many times before. Rest assured, I have read these questions through ...
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How do I ask <user> why they made revision <Revision URL>?
And more specifically for me, how do I ask https://stackoverflow.com/users/14065/martin why they made revision https://stackoverflow.com/posts/5995944/revisions?
(I don't mind the revision, but am ...
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How do I use Stack Exchange sites? [duplicate]
I asked my first question here a few minutes ago and Pascal Martin was kind enough to improve its formatting. I have two questions:
Is there a FAQ that explains how to use text formatting for ...
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how can I get in touch with a stackoverflow member privately? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Any way to send a personal message to another user?
How do I contact a stack overflow user?
I can not find a single contact method on a user's profile
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Is there a way to send private messages/e-mails to members directly through Stack Overflow? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Any way to send a personal message to another user?
I'm just curious... is there a way to send private messages/e-mails to members directly through Stack Overflow?
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My Social Network Integration for Private Messaging, Commenting, Etc
Right now I'm aware that there is no Private Messaging system and that almost (if not all) request for creating one have been denied. Most likely because of the difficult nature of such a system and ...
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Is it OK to email Jon Skeet and ask him to answer posts which mere mortals cannot?
I've posted one or two 'tumbleweed' questions which I'm sure the mighty Jon Skeet could answer while sleeping. He doesn't seem to have noticed them yet (probably beneath him) but I'd still like the ...
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Personal Message to Users [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Any way to send a personal message to another user?
Is there any facility to send personal message to users of stackoverflow??
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How can I PM people on this site? [duplicate]
Couldn't find it anywhere on user profile page. How can I reach some people who just answered my question for some details?
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Why is there a threshold to add a comment? OR Why can't we send private messages?
Update
When I went to see if Kolachi had responded to my response to his question (i.e., what started this question initially), his question was no longer there and at the bottom of my response was a ...
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Maybe we have other things to talk about apart from programming? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Private Message Feature
instant messaging on SO SF SU
The whole question & answer concept has proved itself, but why don't you support something like private messages?
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Why not a PM system? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
instant messaging on SO SF SU
Is there any way one can engage in a private conversation with another user?
If not, why not?
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Why don't we have instant messaging on Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Any way to send a personal message to another user?
I don't expect that this is going to go over well here based on the only other question I've found related to this topic, ...
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Private message system unlocked by reputation
There are dozens of questions that demand private messaging, like this for example.
Would the following be a way to be considered to implement private messaging?
Default: No private messages
Users ...
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Private Message Feature [duplicate]
One thing that I will be very happy if added in Stack Overflow is a Private Message system like in forums, because there's some things that you want to be in private with your internet friends.
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Any way to send a personal message to another user?
There has been quite a few times that I wished I could send a message to another user on SO - not ask a question for everyone to see, but just a short message informing them of something or requesting ...
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