HOT: Enabling PM Notification

[theGinsue]

I've been attempting to contact MANY of you about editing your profiles to comply with site requirements and either you are flat out ignoring me or you never check your PM's and don't have PM notifications turned on.

Personally, I'm getting fairly tired of putting the effort out to contact you only to be ignored. I keep as many of the PM's I send out to you so I can follow up on my messages. Because of this, my mailbox has been above 90% full for over a month now - and that's with me still deleting more than 20 messages/day.

So, this message is my way of saying that I'm done giving you the benefit of the doubt. If you still ignore my PM's after this message I'll assume that you have intentionally chosen to not receive PM notifications and are intentionally ignoring me and, ultimately, choosing to NOT follow the established rules of this site that apply to everyone.

What do I propose for YOU:
(1) Check your PM's regularly.
(2) Turn on your PM notifications.

How do you turn on your PM notifications? Here's how you should edit your Messaging & Noticiations profile settings:

You access the profile editing menus by clicking on "User CP" on the left-hand side of the forums' blue toolbar near the top of the forum window.

Once you click on "User CP", select "Edit Options" in the Settings & Options menu group of the Control Panel menus on the left-hand side.

Now, in the Messaging & Notification window, ensure the following items are checked:
Receive Email from Administrators
Receive Email from Other Members
Enable Private Messaging
Receive Email Notification of New Private Messages
Show New Private Message Notification Pop-up

Then click the "Save Changes" button.


Now, while you're in there modifying your profile, ensure your location is listed in your profile.
To add you location or to ensure it's listed, select "Edit Profile" in the Settings & Options menu group.
Now in the main window, scroll down to the "Additional Information" block and enter your location into the "Location" "Where you live" box.

Then click the "Save Changes" button.

After this, I will recommend to Marlin that we do a little house cleaning for those who ignore my efforts to contact you to comply with site rules.

Yeah, I've got bug up my butt, but dang people - REALLY!?

/rant

[hip55]

If there is an Admin setting that will display a popup notification to those with new PMs I would recommend enabling it.

Hard to get past it.

[TriggerHappy]

Thanks Ginsue and all the Mods for keeping this unruly bunch of heathens in line. But seriously, I appreciate your time. Someday I will get you a beer.
[Beer]

[theGinsue]

If there is an Admin setting that will display a popup notification to those with new PMs I would recommend enabling it.

Hard to get past it.

Has to be enabled by the member - which is one of the options I covered above.

[Marlin]

If there is an Admin setting that will display a popup notification to those with new PMs I would recommend enabling it.

Hard to get past it.


One of those things with this software, I'd have to go in and do each one.

[henpecked]

Ginsue
You get my PM from the 4th?
Steve

[hip55]

I'm not familiar with vBulliten, but other forum software packages have a "member reset" function (or something along those lines) where you can reset ever member to a specific setting.

[Marlin]

Bubble gum and bailing wire.

[hip55]

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[theGinsue]

Ginsue
You get my PM from the 4th?
Steve

Yes. Been trying to juggle some funds to prepare. Wife got me in deep financially and I'm trying to figure out if I'll have ANY discretionary funds by May/June.

[DFBrews]

And done i will now receive an email and pop up if someone pm's me [Beer]

[FireMoth]

I guess i am confused on why having a posted location is so important.

If i dont have one, then people might not want to try to meet with me, or trade with me, which largely affects... well... me. Big boy rules, right?

More over, its not as if the internet requires honesty. Even my location is misleading, since i actually live out west, work in the tech center, and travel a all round the metro area. so i just put 'denver'.
But i could have put eastern fungweek, for all the difference it makes.

I am aware a lot of this came out of the for sale section. to that i say "shop at your own risk". commit to buy something without knowing shipping costs, or location to meet, your bad. fail to put a location for a sale, and not address shipping costs, your bad.
No one makes anyone agree to or adhere to a deal. Just like the rest of the internet.
And the mods can just put a disclaimer on the trade forum that the extent of their involvement will be to ensure that there is nothing illegal happening to their knowledge. the rest is between the forum members, end of story.

I'm not sure what bothers me more: that forum members cried enough to demand a nanny because they apparently cant handle free trade like adults... or that the mods capitulated.

Do we need this, really?

[Irving]

We've gone over this over and over. No one is really willing to let the market regulate itself.

Such is the life of every forum. Once membership levels get to a certain point, it is inevitable that nanny state rules start to take over.

I am in total agreement with you, Firemoth, and feel exactly the same way; but I stopped arguing and just go along with the flow now.

[pickenup]

Is just

"Northern Colorado"

or

"Southern Colorado"

acceptable?

[patrick0685]

Is just

"Northern Colorado"

or

"Southern Colorado"

acceptable?

i believe the answer is no, oh ya and much love to all the mods may my shit never be as stinky as someone elses [Beer]

[Marlin]

Well FireMoth, the short answer is, yes.

Frankly, I have no idea why all of a sudden a certain segment of the membership started acting like two year olds on steroids, but, they did.

The rules have been the same since the site started, nothing has changed there. So, I don't believe there was any "capitulation" on the mods part.

I'm all for "Caveat Emptor" myself. But, seems as if the people that want to be treated as adults, have a problem with acting like adults. When I log in and see that I have 30 PM's over the span of two hours from a couple of "adults" butthurt over the fact that, in my estimation, a lack of "adult" communication, and expect me to resolve it for them. I guess it is time for a more vigorous enforcement of the rules. True story.

Yes, I admit, it would be nice if it was as simple as it is is in your perfect little world. But, atlas it isn't.

On the positive side, most of the for sale threads don't have 35 posts asking "what's your location." Which is good for the person selling the item.

As far as your comparison to the site being run as a nanny state, if the enforcement of the few rules that we do have here leaves you with that impression, Guess I'll just go with my standard answer for that one. Don't like it, no one is forcing you to be here. The door is over there, just let me know so I can delete you from the system.

[FireMoth]

To clarify, my thrust was at the board membership, not the mods.

It has been, as you have described, their behavior that started this.

I define capitulation in this case as almost any other action than saying "fuck off, you skirt wearing nancies"

It's absolutely absurd that a mod should find it necessary to have to check every sale posting to make sure things are clean.
It's retarded that members PM mods instead of each other.
And it is divisive for us to mandate supervision

I wont withdraw my Nanny state comment. I think the members here need to know what they are creating. If we cant communicate on a subject that this board was expressly formed to do, then maybe we need to go back to the kiddy pool.

I'll stay on Co-AR because there ARE a lot of cool people here, including the mods.

But that wont earn the shit heels that have stirred up this hornets nest a free pass with me.

[Marlin]

Oh, I concour. If all I had to worry about here was the spammers that slip through every now and then. Pigs and fecal matter come to mind.

[ronaldrwl]

I guess i am confused on why having a posted location is so important.
...
Do we need this, really?

+1

[Zundfolge]

I have popup notification on but I also have popup blocking on my browser so the popups get shot down.

Doesn't matter though because I have email notification of PMs on every forum I frequent and set up a filter in my email to move all incoming notifications into a "Forum Notifications" folder. So they don't get lost in the massive number of things that fill my inbox every day.

As for those that don't want to put your location in your profiles I really don't have a problem with that as long as you never post in the trading post. But I also don't understand why so many are afraid to put their location in their profile ... if you think you can't be easily found just because you don't put your location in your profile you may be in for a rude awakening (anonymity and privacy are pretty much dead on the net).

[Marlin]

As I have said before, If I can find your general location in about 4 clicks..


[Tooth]


Just sayin'

[theGinsue]

I figured it was about time to resurrect (aka "bump") this thread since LOTS of new folks and some older members don't have heir PM notifications set on and aren't seeing when a mod or another member sends them something they should probably be reading.

Let's turn 'em on folks - save us all some grief.