I am not talking about contacting a user about a question/answer on a site. It's just for other information or asking for some personal advice, or just commenting a user on his/her 'about' profile! How can I leave a message for a user?
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How can I contact another user, if that user has not specified any contact details in their profile?
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I want to be able to ask a question by sending an email to some special email address for Stack Overflow. I have found this convenient in other situations like Google Groups, blogging, and Facebook walls, and it seems that technically it shouldn't be too hard to do.  Does this feature exist already? I'm kind of afraid to ask for features as some of them get downvoted simply since users think they are not neccessary (and not because the post is bad).
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On this question on Super User …    … there is a comment:  Yes, it is possible. Check out this question: apple.stackexchange.com/questions/447/… –   The interesting thing is that:  The user has 1 reputation There was no migrated / deleted answer The question itself was not migrated The user is registered The user does not have any associated network account, therefore no network profile The mods .   Why were they able to post a comment?
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I was working on a userscript today, which had a goal of displaying chat pings immediately at the main site. This would allow me to respond more quicker-like to chat pings.  However, I was met by this fearsome warrior:     Can we please set some decent header things? I want to be able to do this really bad.
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It happened to me that I found a solution to an older question. This question was commented by many people with comments like "very interesting, important, ..." such that I thought that my answer has also some value. My answer was the only one. It was upvoted and accepted by the asker. However, I assume, that very few of the "commentators" saw my answer, because the system does not inform automatically about new answers.   I think it would have been helpful for me and the commentators when they would get informed. I could achieve this by adding my own comment to their comments, because this triggers a system message. My question is: would this action be considered admissible or not? Are there some other possibilities?
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As I have been learning the ropes here on Meta, I have been reading and sometimes participating in discussions similar to  where other users have been mentioned by name and berated or mocked for some bad/gaming behaviour. Other times I've seen users simply just commented upon with "I've noticed that this user has a tendency to do link-only self-answers, what should I do?", and I have found myself thinking: "I wonder if they've ever said something similar about me?"  A couple of days ago, as part of  discussion, where a specific user is mentioned for supposedly poor reviewing another user made this comment to the OP:     -1. Exposing another user like this is not appropriate IMHO. You could just post the image without the link to his profile   The OP defended his position and I made a comment backing the OP, because the site favours substantiating claims with facts; especially on Meta those facts are frequently specific (sets of) questions and occasionally specific (sets of) users' behaviour. That is just how things are done, but I do think the objection is valid because when you are linking to a user profile you are targeting that specific user, and not some general behaviour.  So I suggest that one of the abilities that should come with perhaps 1000 or 1500 rep is that the "Responses" on your profile is expanded with "Links/Mentions" - and that this list is populated with mentions (in questions/answers/comments) where somebody have linked your profile.   The point being two-fold:   The community is no longer discussing/snickering behind said users backs, but are offering the criticism more directly. The user in question have a chance to know that something is not done right, and can act to improve (or defend) it, even when the behaviour is not bad enough to warrant intervention by system or mods. Also, when/if the behaviour improves, the user can flag the links to be removed as obsolete - and hence won't continue to be the laughing stock of everybody who happens to read the post.    The reason I think some reputation is required is from the assumption that more seasoned users will have thicker skin and hence handle the criticism better. I realise that some users will be beyond reach, but I think others would gain from it - and even without the gain, I do feel we all have a right to know when we are being discussed in the open.  Note that this suggestion is NOT for @-mentions in comments, but for links to user profiles.
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I've seen plenty of posts about flagging spammy questions, but now it seems to be mutating to profile spam. Not that much of a problem, but there don't seem to be any moderation tools for this on the site.   Am I wrong?   Example:
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Couldn't find it anywhere on user profile page. How can I reach some people who just answered my question for some details?
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I found a user that have only . Trying to open main profile via  on the meta profile page gives 404 error. I don't think this is normal.  is currently banned in chat for 189 days:    Parent user link refers to already mentioned 404 page.
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It's very common to ask for additional information on a question.  This is perhaps most common with new users who are a little unfamiliar with the need to put all relevant information in their question to start with.  To be blunt, I'm a little tired of explaining to new users that an edit is better than a comment, particularly where we ask "please add the output of..." I note that some users have taken to explicitly asking OPs to edit their question and adding an edit link in their comment.  But still this is missed.  More recently, adding a comment to a new user's question displays a little note saying:     ... is a new contributor. Be nice, and check out our Code of Conduct.   Could there be a similarly formatted note to new contributors commenting on their own question or answer:     If you need to add more information please  your [question][answer] instead of adding a comment.
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I've just started getting these messages:     Please avoid extended discussions in comments. Would you like to automatically move this discussion to chat?   Why should one avoid doing this? I think it adds to the site...  (Tagged  in more ways than one!)
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I've seen , but there seem to be no proper solution.  I suggest an ability to insert a "Let us continue this discussion in chat" comment before the thread gets messy enough to fit the requirement. The point is to prevent the problem before it occurs.  Perhaps this should become a privilege for users of X reputation or more?  Your opinions on the subject?
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I just read . I found the explanation very clear and interesting, but I don't want to create an account on that site. So, I clicked Yes by "Was this post useful to you?"  Who will get that feedback?
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There are several questions here on meta about "How to guide new users" and in particular "How to educate new users about accepting answers" (see , , , ). A common approach seems to be to comment on the post, pointing to the FAQ or proposing a certain action.  While these , they do not directly contribute to the post itself and therefore could also be considered . An alternative to comments is to have the system itself guide new users (see for example  and ).  Before engaging into the comments-vs-system-reminders discussion, we first need to get a canonical answer on this question:    How does the system currently guide (or prod) new users to participate in using the features of the system?
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I've recently had one member in particular who wastes hours of my time asking/commenting about my posts without contributing anything productive towards answering them. I don't want to appear rude to other members (who obviously wouldn't be aware of the history), so I feel obligated to respond to each comment.   In addition, I've noticed that once this member starts participating I am significantly less likely to get input from other members (probably because they either assume that he's solving the problem, or because they get as big a headache as I do trying to read through the comments), and I'm therefore not getting questions answered if this member responds to them.  I don't believe that it would be appropriate and/or helpful to flag the comments  because there's nothing grossly wrong with a comment when viewed individually, and as far as I understand flags don't affect an individuals privileges.  Is there anything that I can currently do to limit and/or block this member from commenting/answering my posts, and if not, is this something that would be worthwhile considering in the future?
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I would like to have a history of the "About me" box in my profile.  I edited my details on my profile page and it replaced all profiles with the same content, so I'd like to be able to go back to the old information.  Having a complete history of all information would be of use to moderators.
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We know from the  that it is accepted only in a limited way in answers and frowned upon if found to be spammy. We know from  that it can be deleted at any time from comments if the comment is not relevant or spammy.  But what about the chat? This leaves chat to be the only legitimate place to promote products or services that the user is affiliated to (albeit in an ad-like way).  What is your opinion?