Messaging and spamming / myLot

India

June 2, 2016 10:45pm CST

How nice it would be instead of spamming the messaging option was used for better purposes. I have done that. There was a user here who wrote a limerick and used a wrong word which would have been a subject of ridicule had that word stayed there. I quickly sent a message and brought that to their notice and it was quickly replaced. Let's help our friends to save them from ridicule.

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Jabo

@jaboUK (64346)

• United Kingdom

3 Jun 16

I've used the messaging like that too, just to advise someone that what they were doing could get them into trouble.

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@allknowing (153544)

• India

3 Jun 16

That is normal courtesy. specially among friends. I had a very bitter experience.with something trivial which was blown out of proportion right in the discussion.

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Jabo

@jaboUK (64346)

• United Kingdom

4 Jun 16

@allknowing I'm sorry to hear that - as you say, if there are disagreements there is no need to make them public.

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@Daljinder (23193)

• Bangalore, India

3 Jun 16

I have private chats with friends through messages. Or discuss about certain topics and decide whether to do a post on them or not.

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@allknowing (153544)

• India

4 Jun 16

Specially with friends it is your duty to protect them through messaging so that your friend is not embarrassed in any way.

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Silvermist

@silvermist (19701)

• India

4 Jun 16

@allknowing Well said.I wish some would use PM to correct some inadvertent mistakes,instead of commenting.

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@allknowing (153544)

• India

4 Jun 16

Specially when the person concerned has been interacting regularly it is upsetting when that happens

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Silvermist

@silvermist (19701)

• India

4 Jun 16

@allknowing Though it was unintentional,yes it is upsetting.

crazyhorseladycx

@crazyhorseladycx (39503)

• United States

3 Jun 16

i'm glad ya were able to come to the rescue :) i agree, there's much better uses fer't. sadly, some folks'll do anythin' to "earn", e'en though they're quickly tended to.

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@allknowing (153544)

• India

3 Jun 16

What is the message option for then?

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crazyhorseladycx

@crazyhorseladycx (39503)

• United States

3 Jun 16

@allknowing oh, i dunno. i've folks here i visit with via the message thingy. schtuff we don't wish all o'er the net :)

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@allknowing (153544)

• India

3 Jun 16

@crazyhorseladycx That is why there is a message option because some things are best said through a message.

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Marsha

@MarshaMusselman (38865)

• Midland, Michigan

3 Jun 16

So have you been getting more spammy messages like we all got about a week or so ago? I will also let people know of typos and other mistakes in a comment on the post itself, and then after it's fixed I'll edit my comment to remove the notice and leave something else about the discussion itself. I'm not sure that I've heard of any other ways that someone has been spamming the message system. If it is more that are sharing their preposterous claims of some type of income making scheme, they won't ever be concerned about whether or not the message area is the best place to try to enlist members, so in that regard you're communicating to deaf ears.

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@allknowing (153544)

• India

3 Jun 16

Of late I have been reading about spamming. I do not think we should correct people in the discussion itself but send a message. which is more dignified.

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