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General Discussion => Forum Information & FAQs => Topic started by: uniwelder on February 15, 2024, 08:46:38 AM
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I just tried sending someone a private message, but when I clicked 'send' I got a pop up that said the person has blocked my personal message. I have never had any contact with this particular person before, either through private messages or in the forum from what I can remember. Is there some option where you can block all messages from people, or would this person have had to 'ignore' me individually?
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There are options to block everyone from sending you PMs outside of Administrators in the Personal Messaging settings (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/profile/?area=pmprefs).
There are options to whitelist the people you can receive PMs from using the Buddies List (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/profile/?area=lists;sa=buddies) in your profile.
There are options to blacklist the people you don't want to receive PMs from using the Ignore List (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/profile/?area=lists;sa=ignore) in your profile.
Which of those three options it is, is for them to know and you to guess... but under the circumstances, I would choose the more charitable expectation of their PMs being disabled over ignoring you specifically.
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Post publicly, like you just did, but @mention the person and ask if you can PM them.
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Post publicly, like you just did, but @mention the person and ask if you can PM them.
I thought about that, but it wasn't particularly important and I didn't want to get involved in the particular thread. The thread itself was starting to get a little off track, so I didn't want to derail it further, but sure, why not?
There are options to block everyone from sending you PMs outside of Administrators in the Personal Messaging settings (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/profile/?area=pmprefs).
There are options to whitelist the people you can receive PMs from using the Buddies List (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/profile/?area=lists;sa=buddies) in your profile.
There are options to blacklist the people you don't want to receive PMs from using the Ignore List (https://forum.mrmoneymustache.com/profile/?area=lists;sa=ignore) in your profile.
Which of those three options it is, is for them to know and you to guess... but under the circumstances, I would choose the more charitable expectation of their PMs being disabled over ignoring you specifically.
Thanks for the quick reply!
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You could also do the @ on this thread if you don't want to dive into the other one. PM's are pretty well separate from the threads.