Glenn Bartley wrote:
I sure don't remember that being the case in the early years of this forum although, if I am recalling the prior one correctly, yes I can understand there was a lot of friction in that one. Yet, as I said, I don't remember PMs being shut off on this, the current forum, in its early years but my memory may not be as good as it was back then. I guess I have not visited this forum often enough and missed most of the drama, or maybe it's been the melodrama, that must have been going on that resulted in the continuation of no PM privileges for the general membership, the posts about claims of misappropriation of funds and possibly of firearms from the membership and the banning of a founding member of this forum. Oh well, its a shame it has come to that; hopefully things will improve.
There's not been much (if any) PM drama here since the system has been set up this way pretty much from the start. Occasionally one of us with PM privileges has not realized that the other regular members couldn't read or send PMs, and we'd send them one. That causes confusion because they get a notification that they have a message they cannot see. Some of us may have sent a few such messages after this was explained, because it amused us to do so....
Edit to add; a side effect of reducing the convenience of members to communicate off group may have been to allow the Chris situation to persist longer than it otherwise might have. But maybe not, since admins have the power to interfere with PMs anyway, and as observed, the email button works. That was how I first became aware of it.