Can Anyone Respond to DM's?

If I send a reply to another DM, can they see it?

Can they reply to it?

I've had several DM's lately where I reply, but I never hear back. Some of them I would expect to hear back, but I get nothing but silence.

Is this a glitch, where DM's are one-way only, or are they just not replying?

Thanks!
FCD

Some get through.
Some don't.
There's been issues with PMs on ATS for several years, before Bill sold the place.

Some appear read when they are not.

If it were me?
I'd use private email, Discord or DI for DMs.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Explanation: Please send me a generic DM and I WILL reply to it if I can ok!

Personal Disclosure: Let us stress test this eh?

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

I have sent you a DM.

Please reply and I'll post it in this thread.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

I've read your reply and sent one "back at ya".

I haven’t been having problems

originally posted by: DontTreadOnMe
Some get through.
Some don't.
There's been issues with PMs on ATS for several years, before Bill sold the place.

Some appear read when they are not.

If it were me?
I'd use private email, Discord or DI for DMs.

Yeah, ATS is suspect.

a reply to: quintessentone

lack of maintenance and/or updating???

originally posted by: DontTreadOnMe
a reply to: quintessentone

lack of maintenance and/or updating???

???

a reply to: quintessentone

the "suspect" part you mentioned......

a reply to: chr0naut

Done.

a reply to: chr0naut

Ditto. Plus I sent you an original DM as a follow up message (shortly after I sent my reply). You should see both my reply and the original message, so (2) messages total.

a reply to: DontTreadOnMe

Understood. It was nothing important, just some trivial stuff. I just didn't see a reply when I asked a couple questions and this got me to wondering if the 'reply' function was in-op.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Yes received. All good!

a reply to: chr0naut

Thanks!

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

Or just reply in a thread directly, why the need for private messages? At the very least I expect a FOI request after several years and I don’t want to see those messages redacted!

a reply to: AllisVibration
Not a good solution to make private communications public, and it dilutes the thread topic.

a reply to: AllisVibration

... At the very least I expect a FOI request after several years and I don’t want to see those messages redacted!

LOL...well I'm not too worried about the DM's I'm discussing here. As DTOM correctly points out, most of the message traffic is not topic related (in fact, probably the bulk of it is..."Hey Mod, Why did you delete my post??!??!!!?"...LOL!) But seriously though, would you want to put your email address out on a public forum?

But specific to your point about redaction...actually some of it very much would be redacted. And it would be redacted by LAW because it contains PII (personally Identifiable Information) which is covered under federal disclosure laws.

Just FYI.

a reply to: Flyingclaydisk

That’s a fair point about PII, and I get the off topic issue, you understood I was joking though and referring to some of the FOI requests that have so much redacted there is barely any information to be had at all…

As it happens I have a business so my email address is publicly available as is my phone number, strangely enough I don’t get that much spam or unrelated phone calls.

However I want to share that there is no real privacy on the internet, I am shocked by people who link all there accounts and passwords together for convenience. When I first roamed the webs you never gave your correct PII not any of it, and I still don’t if possible. Only the government and my banks have that stuff, and well, it’s not as if they can be trusted with it either. The main thing people have to be on guard about is identify theft and fraud scams.
The big data they have on you is anonymised by law. I don’t think biometrics and all these so called new security measures are the answer though, far from it, if anything they are anti privacy and will make things worse should it get hacked which they can be.

On the subject of "misdirection", I was noticing several years ago that this was happening among the "Replies to your posts" notifications. I would check them up, and they would turn out to be replies to somebody else's post.