Service Requests

[Vizionz]

How come ya cant respond to them. do you have to be staff or have hacks listed here to be able to reply to service requests ?

i get the no permission message when ever i try to reply to any of them just wondering why

[Hellcat]

If you want to respond to a service request, you have to PM the one who posted it.

It's "by design" and IMO a very good choice for many reasons like protecting privacy of the requester and all the ones who offer their service to him/her.

It also prevents things like "I do it for $100" - "OK, then I'll do it for $50".

[Vizionz]

got ya :) thanks

[Paul M]

It also prevents you asking questions to clarify what the person means, since most "requests" are very vague.

This is one reason why many never get a response - no one can ask a question and certainly can't be bothered to PM people all the while (esp with the ridiculous 500 PM limit here).

[Hellcat]

Hmm.... hitting "PM" instead of "Reply" isn't that a huge difference.... :)

And the 500er limit.... I've seen boards with way less ;)

[SuperFly]

Hmm.... hitting "PM" instead of "Reply" isn't that a huge difference.... :)

And the 500er limit.... I've seen boards with way less ;)

Mines 25

[Xenon]

i have more ;)

[Hellcat]

i have more ;)
So do I.... on my own boards ;):D

[Paul M]

Mines 2525 is a waste of time, you may as well turn it off.

500 is very restrictive when you are dealing with members via PM all the while - I barely manage to keep 3/4 weeks worth and waste loads of time having to delete PM's and asking people to resend stuff because I no longer have it. I'm certainly not going to clog it even more asking for clarificaion of service requests. I simply ignore them. Given how many get bumped, so do most other people it seems.

[SuperFly]

25 is a waste of time, you may as well turn it off.

500 is very restrictive when you are dealing with members via PM all the while - I barely manage to keep 3/4 weeks worth and waste loads of time having to delete PM's and asking people to resend stuff because I no longer have it. I'm certainly not going to clog it even more asking for clarificaion of service requests. I simply ignore them. Given how many get bumped, so do most other people it seems.

Why do you say that
I think pm's in general are pointless, but some dont, hence i have 25 on.
500 is BS thats too much wasted space.

[Xenon]

there are exportfunctions in vb, so you don't loose anything :eek:

[Paul M]

there are exportfunctions in vb, so you don't loose anything :eek:Not much use if you are swapping machines all the while. Even if I wanted to be searching text files all the while (which I don't).

[Borgs8472]

Master coders should obviously get more PM space ;)

[Tony G]

500 PMs isn't enough? Delete some of them. It's not that hard.

[Paul M]

500 PMs isn't enough?That's what I said.
Delete some of them. It's not that hard.I also covered that.

Perhaps it might help if you re-read my post first, then replied. ;)

[Hellcat]

[...] 500 is plenty, you won't see many forums ever giving out so many PMs to members.
Well.... he's right on this.
From what I've seen so far usually it's 25 to 50, sometimes 100....

[Corriewf]

That's what I said.
I also covered that.

Perhaps it might help if you re-read my post first, then replied. ;)

Name one site beside your own that give more.......

[Paul M]

Name one site beside your own that give more.......I'm not listing sites here (I'm not actually a member of many). Of them, 500 is the second lowest, the lowest is 200, most are 1,000, one appears to be 10,000 (yes that surprised even me !). :)

[Corriewf]

I'm not listing sites here (I'm not actually a member of many). Of them, 500 is the second lowest, the lowest is 200, most are 1,000, one appears to be 10,000 (yes that surprised even me !). :)

I can see why your not a member of many by your high standards.......;)

[---MAD---]

I can see why your not a member of many by your high standards.......;)

well i guess this is off topic in some ways but in someways it on topic.

I guess for master coders you would need at least 1000 space.