Service Requests
 

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

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".

got ya :) thanks

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).

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

i have more ;)

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

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.