Members Helping Members

[Samurai Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Electrocell

Visitor MessagingThis forum features a visitor messaging system that allows members to send messages to one another publicly.

If you do not want to receive visitor messages, you may disable the visitor messaging system.
Enable Visitor Messaging

You may limit the usage of your visitor messages to just moderators and your contacts.
Limit usage of Visitor Messages to Contacts and Moderators

I see, thank you.
This is about User Notes from the vBulletin document:

This feature is intended to allow staff members to discuss members and keep the information organized rather then having a variety of threads in a staff forum.

Maybe I shouldn't have replied that way, oops.

Thank you for this thread! It lets me ask stoopid newbie questions when I'm not sure who to bug.

[Electrocell]

Originally Posted by Samurai Wanderer

I see, thank you.
This is about User Notes from the vBulletin document:

This feature is intended to allow staff members to discuss members and keep the information organized rather then having a variety of threads in a staff forum.

Maybe I shouldn't have replied that way, oops.

Thank you for this thread! It lets me ask stoopid newbie questions when I'm not sure who to bug.

think they put this thread up so we didn't have to continually bug Linus or Medusa and the rest of the tech geniuses all the time. Anything major they are the ones to ask ,if your fellow members can't explain it here.

[Linus]

Originally Posted by Samurai Wanderer

I see, thank you.
This is about User Notes from the vBulletin document:

This feature is intended to allow staff members to discuss members and keep the information organized rather then having a variety of threads in a staff forum.

Maybe I shouldn't have replied that way, oops.

Thank you for this thread! It lets me ask stoopid newbie questions when I'm not sure who to bug.

Where'd you find that? (link?)

[Samurai Wanderer]

Originally Posted by Linus

Where'd you find that? (link?)

https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/...group_usernote

[Linus]

Originally Posted by Samurai Wanderer

https://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/...group_usernote

That's for version 5 (we're not there yet). And it's a user group setting in 5. In earlier versions it was something that users can use to leave notes for each other.

[Samurai Wanderer]

Ah, all right. I was curious about the difference between Visitor messages, User notes, and Private messages. I didn't know what was the proper way to reply to a Visitor message when I couldn't post a Visitor message at the person's profile. /n00b

[nycfem]

I am not caught up on this thread so forgive if some or all of these have been mentioned but here's my .02: When I try to write someone a visitor message and see that their messages are closed, I take a look at their user notes. If they have a lot of user notes, then I get the gist that that's where that person doesn't mind receiving messages, so I leave what would have been a visitor message there. If the user notes are also empty, I get the sense that they are a private person and back off or PM them instead. Not saying this is "right," just saying this is how I think of it.

Also, just a general reminder to all (not to you), for those that respond to visitor messages from someone on their own page, it is not as effective as going to the other person's page and responding. The person will get it quicker. If you (again, not Samurai, just general you) respond to the visitor message on your own page, it might get buried and the person will have no idea to check back. I sometimes see new people do that, so I thought I'd mention it in this post.

Originally Posted by Samurai Wanderer

I didn't know what was the proper way to reply to a Visitor message when I couldn't post a Visitor message at the person's profile. /n00b

[Parker]

Originally Posted by nycfembbw

I am not caught up on this thread so forgive if some or all of these have been mentioned but here's my .02: When I try to write someone a visitor message and see that their messages are closed, I take a look at their user notes. If they have a lot of user notes, then I get the gist that that's where that person doesn't mind receiving messages, so I leave what would have been a visitor message there. If the user notes are also empty, I get the sense that they are a private person and back off or PM them instead. Not saying this is "right," just saying this is how I think of it.

Also, just a general reminder to all (not to you), for those that respond to visitor messages from someone on their own page, it is not as effective as going to the other person's page and responding. The person will get it quicker. If you (again, not Samurai, just general you) respond to the visitor message on your own page, it might get buried and the person will have no idea to check back. I sometimes see new people do that, so I thought I'd mention it in this post.

Sometimes, I do like you and PM them - other times, if someone leaves me a message but I cant leave them one, I sometimes go into the thread from where their comment to me originated and I leave them a rep message, so I can message them - even though it isnt a public response.