Category: Zone BBS Q&A
I'm not sure if this has been asked before, but I thought I had seen on this site years ago, the ability to completely disable private messages? Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought posting my question would yield the answer for sure.
Thanks in advance.
their are so many people on here with all quicknotes disabled.
it might actually be a good feature for them (and for some others who just don't want them)
maybe a box in account settings you can tick to disable them
If you are talking about the ability to disable private quicknotes, the only way to do this is to disable all quicknotes. I do not recall there any features that allowed users to disable private quicknotes while still having the ability to send and receive public quicknotes.
Also, the ignore feature allows you to select what you wish to ignore from other users. You can set the ignore settings so that you can ignore just the quicknotes from other users while still being able to receive private mail messages and read board topics from this same user.
Hope this helps answer your question.
I think crazy_cat is right. The only private thing that you can disable is private quicknotes. To my knowledge, you could never disable private messages.
To those who misunderstood me, I am referring to private mail, not private quicknotes. If I meant quicknotes, I would've specified that. I know how to disable quicknotes though.
well, this topic needs to be moved to suggestions.
lol
No. You can not disable private mail.
You can however block all mail coming from this site in your personal mail settings if that matters to you.
When I say personal, I mean your personal account.
Sorry, I thought you were talking about private quicknote messages and not private mail messages. Sometimes it can be difficult to tell which one someone is talking about when they do not specify which type of message they are talking about.
Again, you can prevent specific people from being able to send you private mail messages. However, I do not believe there has ever been any settings to stop receiving private mail messages altogether.
But there may be a setting regarding whether or not you receive a notification to an external email address. However, I do not typically check the email address I use for this website often, so I am not completely sure how this would work in terms of the various settings that may be available for external email notifications.
I did specify exactly what I was talking about though. I said "private messages." Messages, mail, they are one in the same, as far as I've ever known.
Regarding turning off notifications for the site, I don't care about that at all. I rarely get them, and they aren't a nuisance to me even when I do.
I posted this topic in this particular category because it started off as being a question, but on second thought, maybe one of the CLs could move it to the suggestions board so it might have a chance of being looked at by an adman. I don't have high hopes for that happening, but there's at least a chance.
I beg to differ.
Private messages can be quick notes,.
You'd have needed to say private mail.
I've seen private messages called just that "private messages" on other websites, which is why I feel the way I do.
I understood what you meant, if that helps. I always thought that they were called private messages too, and private quicknotes were called...well...um...private quicknotes!
Again, sorry for the confusion. It has been a long week. Complaining about the correct term for the private mail messages is not going to change the fact that I have never seen any settings or features to completely disable them. I do not understand why anyone would want to completely disable the private mail messages though. No one has ever made an issue of this before.
Thank you maddog, I'm glad *someone* understood what I meant. I've always called private quicknotes exactly that, private quicknotes, when I'm referring to them.
Crazy cat, my answer is simple. I wanna disable private messages because I don't want them to be enabled. That's a good reason for them to be disabled. LOL. Anyway, sorry to ruffle your feathers with my simple inquiry. Sounds like you're pretty high strung.
Well, you are most definitely entitled to your opinion. However, whether or not it is correct is another story. There was nothing you said or did that ruffled my feathers.
There has never been any way to disable private mail messages, and it looks as though you are the only one on here who would like to have a way to disable them. So I am not quite sure how much priority something like this would get when only one person wants it and not a whole lot is done to improve things on this site anymore.
Well, disabled them already.
Block them.
Laughing.
That's why I posted this topic, on the off-chance that others might feel similarly as I do. It was worth a shot, anyway.
I know others have asked about this being an option in the past, or thought it was a good idea.
Not exactly sure why cat is being so hostile.
I have never seen anyone post this suggestion on the boards before. And I am not so sure why everyone claims I am being hostile when I am simply trying to answer the question posed in this board topic.
I'd disable private messages if it were possible.
It has been posted before, but that doesn't matter.
I guess I've been hostile along with Cat.
Laughing.
Wayne, you seemed like you were being funny just because that is how you are. Kat just seems to be hostile for being hostile's sake, as she always seems to be in every board topic she posts to.
Can you please explain to me what is so hostile about providing a sincere answer to your question? I even apologized for misunderstanding the question you are asking on this board topic. I really do not understand.
There is a difference between being resistant and being hostile. Kat is pointing out only that this doesn't seem to be a suggestion that she's seen in the past. This doesn't mean it's a bad suggestion, and it doesn't mean she thinks or has implied that Chelsea is foolish for making it. At the absolute outside, she's saying that if the desire to block all private messages via account settings is only being asked for by a tiny minority (thus far only Chelsea and maybe HellTabby, to my knowledge), the likelihood that time will be devoted to it is low. That's not hostility, it's hard fact. There was nothing wrong with making the inquiry, but the likelihood of it coming to pass is, based on what I've seen, pretty low. What little time the admins seem to spend here is not likely to be spent on an option that is only going to serve a few people.
'I mean, I'd use it if it were a thing, but I don't care that it's not. Anyway, it'll probably never be a thing, so.
I don't think I'd use it if it were a thing. I find the ignore feature to be more than sufficient to block the unwanted private messages that I get. Otherwise, a person could just choose to not even click on their private messages if they don't want to. After all, you can already disable the email notifications that hound you whenever you receive a private message, so it shouldn't be too difficult in the grand scheme to ignore clicking on the link completely. Heck, there are like 10 things on the site that I don't ever bother to touch, but they're still there.