FabSwingers.com forum: Message filters

By *eus n Europa OP Couple
2 weeks ago

Loughborough

Can you please add a message filter to stop people privately replying to forum posts

Seems everytime we post anything on the forum we get private messages from a post or response

Add a filter so we can decide if we want private replies

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By *lasgowMinxWoman
2 weeks ago

glasgow

Id quite like this too

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By *ucka39Man
2 weeks ago

Newcastle

Would be great, which a user could turn off/on in the usual message filter

Turn message off/on within the forums, adding a little bit more control

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By *bi HaiveMan
Forum Mod
2 weeks ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

If you have message filters set for gender and age, then people can't reply to forum posts privately.

They get the same message advising them of this if they try.

Can you not use those? 🤷‍♂️

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By *iss_Juicy79Woman
2 weeks ago

Edinburgh

I'd love this too I don't want to turn all my filters on as I don't mind getting messages from men etc

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By *ucka39Man
2 weeks ago

Newcastle

"If you have message filters set for gender and age, then people can't reply to forum posts privately.

They get the same message advising them of this if they try.

Can you not use those? 🤷‍♂️"

But then that interferes with normal chats away from the forums

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By *bi HaiveMan
Forum Mod
2 weeks ago

Cheeseville, Somerset

"If you have message filters set for gender and age, then people can't reply to forum posts privately.

They get the same message advising them of this if they try.

Can you not use those? 🤷‍♂️

But then that interferes with normal chats away from the forums

Yes.

But let's say there was a filter to stop messages from forum posts.

What's to stop someone just clicking on your profile and sending a message that way? 🤷‍♂️

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By *umkinkMan
4 days ago

Town centre

"Can you please add a message filter to stop people privately replying to forum posts

Seems everytime we post anything on the forum we get private messages from a post or response

Add a filter so we can decide if we want private replies"

I had a forum post today and had some not very nice private replies (all reported before anyone says)

If there was a way to have set up a post as forum replies only, no private replies, then with hindsight, I would have should that option have been available

It would be a good improvement if fab takes on the suggestion

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By *ucka39Man
4 days ago

Newcastle

"Can you please add a message filter to stop people privately replying to forum posts

Seems everytime we post anything on the forum we get private messages from a post or response

Add a filter so we can decide if we want private replies

I had a forum post today and had some not very nice private replies (all reported before anyone says)

If there was a way to have set up a post as forum replies only, no private replies, then with hindsight, I would have should that option have been available

It would be a good improvement if fab takes on the suggestion "

Hiya

As mentioned above your comment by the mod could it still have been done if they sent you a message via your profile. That's the tricky part can it be avoided or not

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By *umkinkMan
3 days ago

Town centre

Agreed they could but good software development includes behavioural research of the user base to understand how people interact with a system

Users on fab (some not all) dont go clicking and reading. Hence why you see so many people posting “read the profile before messaging” people don’t, they just message anyway

With that behaviour in mind, if you allow a user creating a post to have a choice whether the post is set up with or without a reply privately option then it would help some but not all.

Some people will still click and get to the point to message you anyway. But the ones who don’t have a private option and probably don’t read or click anything more than pics, won’t go the extra mile.

There’s never a single solution for anything in life or a one size fits all. But if there’s a small improvement that users could benefit from then why not implement. It’s likely to be such a small change that would improve a lot of experience for users

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