Hey, I'm kind of a n00b, can you tell me how to send private messages to members?
thanks
Hey, I'm kind of a n00b, can you tell me how to send private messages to members?
thanks
Way to hijack a thread!
New members are prevented from posting private messages until they reach a certain threshold of posts.
Learn some etiquette and post your messages in the correct forums and in appropriate threads. You won't last very long 'round here, if you don't.
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Look up a C++ Reference and learn How To Ask Questions The Smart WayOriginally Posted by Bjarne Stroustrup (2000-10-14)
For the love of all that is good. The forum desperately needs an auto-filter, that'll block threads posted by new members about things like this, and of course, inform them why.
Don't kid yourself with this response... I'm sure a lot of people picked up on the very obvious joke. There is a thing called deadpan humor where people don't feel the need to use outrageous facial expressions and silly inflections in their voice to get the joke across... you simply discern the humor through the absurdity of the scenario presented in contrast to their historically normal sensibility.
Last edited by SlyMaelstrom; 10-19-2011 at 06:48 AM.
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I have Scandinavian relatives and I would say their palette for humour is as different from NA as their palette for food. They like pickled fish with hard liquor first thing in the morning, and are slapstick throughout the day. I think they consider deadpan humor morose or introverted; something you take refuge in if you are no good at elaborate practical jokes.
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<seriously>
You could always put an initial form letter in the PM box explaining the issue. A lot of places do that kind of thing; it is no trouble, I think.
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Last edited by MK27; 10-19-2011 at 07:30 AM.
C programming resources:
GNU C Function and Macro Index -- glibc reference manual
The C Book -- nice online learner guide
Current ISO draft standard
CCAN -- new CPAN like open source library repository
3 (different) GNU debugger tutorials: #1 -- #2 -- #3
cpwiki -- our wiki on sourceforge
Send out a welcome PM that explains this kind of stuff and points to all the announcements. I think you should be able to do it automatically.
That's a sensible solution. Of course you'd also have to have a more direct way of telling a new user that they have a new private message along with a link to the said private message. A lot of forums do a pop-up either in a new window or just and overlay over the forum window when a new PM is received. You have to assume people that have trouble sending PMs or accessing their account is also going to have trouble realizing they have a PM and checking it. That little notification at the top might seem obvious to most of us, but then the people asking these questions aren't really most of us.
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Not everyone's sense is as well evolved, refined, and superior as your own, o' master of humor.
The problem is there are _countless_ forums that send you a greeting PM when you sign up. As such, I think they would be ignored for the most part, considering I've learned to ignore them myself. But that could just be me, dunno.
Last edited by Yarin; 10-19-2011 at 04:01 PM.