Advice re Personal Messages

[Hutton]

When a pm is sent to a fellow bass chatter do they receive notification by email. The reason for asking is that I have sent a few pms and haven't received a reply. When I go to view the pm the receiver has not read it and yet they have been logged on to the forum plenty times.

Edited June 16, 2014 by Hutton

[CamdenRob]

I think it's a setting you have to tick if you want notifications...

[Cameronj279]

I know that I get an e-mail whenever I get a PM but only for the first message and not any of the subsequent ones. I do think it is something you can turn on/off in the settings (as Rob said)

[waynepunkdude]

Look I'm getting your messages I just don't know how many pictures of you naked with your bass I want to see.

[Legion]

Also, if the person is accessing the site on a mobile platform its not particularly obvious they have a message waiting in their PM box. So they might be coming back multiple times a day but be unaware of the PM

[Hutton]

Thanks for the replies chaps. I'm not so sure about yours Wayne - gave me a laugh tho'. :-)

[yorks5stringer]

I read the thread title as "advice re personal massages" so already I'm disappointed.....

[flyfisher]

No happy ending eh?

[waynepunkdude]

[quote name='flyfisher' timestamp='1402946520' post='2478229']
No happy ending eh?
[/quote]

I'll send you the pics.

[discreet]

Eurgh.

[DogHammer]

I have found that I do mostly get an email notification of a private message. But there are times when I don't.

Also sometimes when I have had a new private message, or a reply from a PM from someone then it does not show at the top of the BassChat window. As in I don't get the little red 1 at the top. But when I drill down to the messages then it shows in Bold text as a new message.

[dave_bass5]

Dont forget you dont even have to come on here to read PMS, so there is no easy way to tell if someone has read the message or not.
If you get email alerts its all in those so some people might forget or not bother reading them again on here.

[icastle]

When I first joined BC I used the notification e-mails for everything - I just used to click them to get sent to the appropriate page, replied to the topic and closed the window afterwards.

It was just more convenient than logging onto the site and tracking down posts that people had replied to me on.

[Hutton]

[quote name='dave_bass5' timestamp='1403100179' post='2479753']
Dont forget you dont even have to come on here to read PMS, so there is no easy way to tell if someone has read the message or not.
If you get email alerts its all in those so some people might forget or not bother reading them again on here.
[/quote]

I think this is true. What bothers me is that some people do not have the courtesy to reply to a pm when they have been asked something in particular.