I don’t think the OP was saying that the limit was offensive.
I believe he/ she was saying that springing for the capacity of an extra 50 email storage was offensive.
It’s the uselessness of the offer that really gets me. As if someone who was complaining about fifty messages would find a hundred adequate for their needs!
As I said, in principle I may pay for unlimited messaging.
Also, I think we’re probably working from different definitions of offended.
Perhaps that’s true. I’m certainly willing to accept that. It’s really not a big deal to me (what you wrote), I was trying to clarify for a previous poster why some people reacted so strongly. They may have interpreted your words similarly.
Dopers are really protective of their board and its practices even when those practices are not the most effective. spankthecrumpet is right about one thing, raising the pm limit on members to something worthwhile would only increase the number of people who’d pay.
sachet? Seriously?
I do not understand what you are getting at
Both of you are. I have PMs turned off completely.
A sachet of ketchup sounds odd to American ears. I think kayaker just doesn’t realize that it’s used in Non-US english speaking countries.
I bet less than 5% of consistently active members even use private messages, nevermind for the limit to even matter to the rest that do.
I think it’s fair to say that I do a bit of private messaging and deleting them to free up save space has never been a problem.
Point being, it’s not worth the hassle to increase the limit when a whole one whiny bitch wants more.
That’s rather harsh language, don’t you think?
Maybe I’m doing it wrong,
Maybe I’m doing it wrong.
It just don’t move me
The way that it should.
Maybe I’m doing it wrong.
Use the word “sachet” and any credibility you may have had. . .gone! Maybe it is just me. Sachet?:dubious:
If you look at is “Hey, I can pay for the extra PM cache space”, then yes, it’s a ridiculous offer. But that’s like looking at a budget hotel and a high end resort and saying “Wait, I have to pay an extra $300/night to get a bathrobe?”
The PM cache is not what the membership is about. It might be the only part YOU are interested in, but it’s really just a side benefit.
This.
It’s just you.
BTW, becoming a member does not take you from fifty to 100 private messages, but to 200 of them.
but don’t let that belittle the importance of my opinion. Sachet? I’m seeing perfumed garters.
Ohh, thank you, now I’m having visions of a perfumed garter wearing David Suchet! :eek:
CMC fnord!
Listen up, everybody:
Nobody send spankthecrumpet any more Private Messages.
There. Problem solved.
Just PM’d you…
Gmail has vastly more money and resources than SDMB does. Why should the space you get there reflect the space you get here?
And I’ve been to boards where the PM limit was in the low single digits. SDMB’s 50 to 200 seems pretty big compared to that.