Reminder, recommendations via private message are not allowed. Keep them public.I is there any possibility you could share the details of the painter or direct message them to me please?
Reminder, recommendations via private message are not allowed. Keep them public.I is there any possibility you could share the details of the painter or direct message them to me please?
Reminder, recommendations via private message are not allowed. Keep them public.
Hi Leo,Reminder, recommendations via private message are not allowed. Keep them public.
It used to, but looks like that piece might have been dropped! I'll check it out.Does it say that in the posting guidelines?
We've had problems in the past with businesses registering as users and pretending to be satisfied customers and posting recommendations via PM, and then posters employing them coming back with problems.I get that service providers shouldn’t be doing it, but happy customers?
Yep, can see how this would be a problem.I don't know when or why we dropped it from the Posting Guidelines. I don't remember discussing it.
We found some people had registered and never posted, but just advertised either themselves or some other service.
Maybe allow recommendation by PM when a poster specifically requests it?We have stopped new users i.e. people with fewer than 10 posts initiating contact by PM so maybe we don't need the guideline anymore?
Ideally, yes, but AlbacoreA's point re public identification is valid. I hadn't thought of that.Our preference would still be for recommendations to be made publicly.
Ok by me, anyway!But if Gordon wants to send the name of a car mechanic to Baby Boomer, that is probably fair enough?