I must be a dunce, because I can’t find any email addresses in the FAQ (the one at the top of the page). I’m sure they’re in there somewhere, but I’m having trouble finding them.
If you mean the FAQs in the ATMB forum, I don’t see email addresses for anyone within the posts themselves; click on “email” on your post, and an unlogged person won’t be able to access the link, just as with the Forum Leaders page.
Then wouldn’t they email through their own address book?
No comment.
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I am poster X, and if poster Y wants to e-mail me, I want them to be able to find my e-mail address on the board. So I put it in my profile.
Ok. So it’s buried in a FAQ thread, rather than the FAQ itself.
As for your second comment, you said “friends.” If people want their friends to contact them, wouldn’t they do so through their own address book?
You probably mean that Poster X would like people he or she knows - not just friends, but all benign acquaintances - to be able to email him or her through the board. But you also said “and not be harrassed by other members”; you probably meant “by nonmembers or banned people.”
I said:
And you said:
My point still stands - if they’re worried about being harrassed by registered members, they should hide their email addresses.
Which is what my previous post said: “Have you ever tried to read the FAQ threads in ATMB? Good information in there.”
That is correct.
For clarification:
I was suggesting that Moderators have accessible e-mail accounts to non-logged in folks, and those “other posters” you refer to are not affected.
That would be “what we could do about that.”
My apologies for annoying you with such tiny issues.
You can’t set up vBulletin to say “only certain profiles should be visible to non-members”. It’s all or none.
But then, you might ask, shouldn’t staff e-mail addresses be available to non-members if they have problems signing on the the SDMB? And my answer is, as before, if you can’t sign on to the SDMB, you can find an administrator e-mail in the FAQ.
Some will then say “but I don’t read the FAQ threads”. Then I answer “you should read the FAQ threads.”
Ah. Guess I’ve got some studying to do.
Arnold, the whole idea of the FAQs is so that the info in them is easily found by members. If such an extremely relevant bit of information as the email addresses of staff is buried in a FAQ, few people are going to see it who really need it. Why don’t you do a FAQ sticky just for these email addresses? That’d solve all of these issues, wouldn’t it?
No it wouldn’t. There will still be people that say “Well I never go to ATMB, I never even knew about the FAQ threads.”
But this way you’d have a specific FAQ thread to which to point them.
Sorry dantheman I’m not convinced.
Just trying to save you some work, Arnold.
Is “how about them Bears” really a non sequitur? As I understand it, a non sequitur is a conclusion illogically drawn from the “facts,” as presented.
“How about them Bears” strikes me as a timeout, hijack, purposeful re-direct. But not a non sequitur.
non se·qui·tur n.
[list=1][li]An inference or conclusion that does not follow from the premises or evidence. [/li][li]A statement that does not follow logically from what preceded it.[/list=1]I think pie and the rest fall under #2.[/li]
“Non sequitur” from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Non sequitur is a funny comic strip.
I’m not a big fan of it, although I do read about forty other web comics every day. It’s too repetitive for my tastes, a mortal error in any creative medium for which a full archive is easily accessible.
Non sequitur, example: Wikkit enjoys web comics, and so therefore, Wikkit enjoys Spiderman.
Good example, but you’re still clinging to the first definition, as did levdrakon. An inference that doesn’t follow from the evidence.
I, on the other hand, argue that the square root of cheese is equal to the value of a six cups of shit-covered rat fur.
My hovercraft is full of eels.
Now you’re not even trying. That followed perfectly logically in the holistic view of this board; it would have been as if I had posted “When come back, bring pie.”
Gotcha ya.