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Scorpion0x17

Can we please have a private message facility.

Well, either that, or some other mechanism by which anyone that decides for themselves, as a free-thinking independent adult, to share further contact details with other free-thinking independent adults, can do so.

Thanks.

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  • Skye's suggestion of a friends system is exactly what I would have suggested.

    And, to expand on that a little, the way I would expect such a system to work would be that one could request to 'friend' anyone else, but the person being 'friended' would then have the option to either accept or decline.

    It is also usual in most forums, and other similar types of online communication system, for any private messages to only actually be nominally private - that is to say that whilst such messages are not visible to the public in general, they remain visible to the site's moderators and administrators.

    This, so long as it is made clear to all, and there exists a way to 'report' messages to the moderators and admins, provides a level of protection without unduely overloading the site staff with additional work.

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  • Skye's suggestion of a friends system is exactly what I would have suggested.

    And, to expand on that a little, the way I would expect such a system to work would be that one could request to 'friend' anyone else, but the person being 'friended' would then have the option to either accept or decline.

    It is also usual in most forums, and other similar types of online communication system, for any private messages to only actually be nominally private - that is to say that whilst such messages are not visible to the public in general, they remain visible to the site's moderators and administrators.

    This, so long as it is made clear to all, and there exists a way to 'report' messages to the moderators and admins, provides a level of protection without unduely overloading the site staff with additional work.

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