One To One Contact.

[Theland]

Hi Ed, Some years ago you had The Sports Bar where ABers could make one to one contact privately.
There is a serious need for a similar facility, as some people cry out for a helping hand and those willing to help would be facilitated by something similar to the old Sports Bar.
Or is there another way?

[ummmm]

Troll paradise

[Old_Geezer]

Surely trolls can be identified and reprimanded in the usual manner ?

[woofgang]

Theland its easy. one of you creates a throwaway email address and posts it on here. The people use that email address to share real email addresses and then the creator destroys the throwaway email. To my knowledge, there has never been any Pm facility on AB and I have been around since 2002, before the sports bar was created. It degenerated into a nasty place.

[ummmm]

OG - No, there are loads of banned users still using the site.

[ichkeria]

Surely not ;-)

[Peter Pedant]

yeah do a throwaway one on gmail
like you go to the gmail site and open one

bigboy@gmaildot com or something

and then use once - like a hankie

the ed will delete your post that contains the email when you say

[naomi24]

Woofgang, //To my knowledge, there has never been any Pm facility on AB//

There was. It didn't last long though.

[Old_Geezer]

And this makes it worse, how ?

[woofgang]

I don't think SAB exists any more.

[pastafreak]

I agree with Naomi...there was a messaging facility. It wasn't SAB though.

[Bazile]

Yes there was a private messaging facility

[Theland]

It could save a life I think?

[Mamyalynne]

If you are on a thread and want someone to contacct you, use....

https://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html

[naomi24]

pastafreak, quite right, it wasn't SAB. It was here in AB.

//There is a serious need for a similar facility//

I disagree. I do, however, think a personal message category would be useful, limited to one or two lines per post to avoid 'chat' or more. That would enable people to pass on email addresses, or direct others to particular threads.

[kvalidir]

I think it would be a great idea, almost every other message board/ website has it and it causes no bother on those that can't be dealt with.

[anneasquith]

Use AB Facebook ?

[jim360]

AB Facebook has the disadvantage that it is all under our real names. Those who want to remain anonymous, albeit while still sharing emails, might not like that.

[jim360]

You could go to reddit, perhaps? Or 4chan. Quite a varied community, and if you look in the right places you can find plenty of places unsullied by power-hungry AB mods. Hopefully.

[-Talbot-]

I remember looking at 4chan no you mention it. Will have to take another look.