PMing non-users
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Is there some account on the forum I can use as a /dev/null for PMs that I want to generate, but don't want to send to any actual person? Could it be @PaulaBean, or @system perhaps? (I'm doing this as a way to emulate PMing one's self to save a 'note' within the context of these forums.)
Better yet, what are the semantics of PMing @PaulaBean, or @system for that matter?
EDIT: Apparently @PaulaBean says on the tin that she ignores PMs. Just PMed @system...
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In theory, an admin could log into one of those accounts and see the message. Your best bet may be a sockpuppet account.
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In theory, an admin could log into one of those accounts and see the message. Your best bet may be a sockpuppet account.
As in an actual administrator, I take it? Sounds like something I'm not terribly concerned about for my particular use case...Admins: do you concur with the use of @PaulaBean as a PM black hole/bitbucket device?
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In theory, an admin could log into one of those accounts and see the message
In theory, an admin can impersonate any account and see any message. If you're concerned about that, don't use Dicsores PMs.
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Register @Null and forget the password, then everyone has a good place to send PMs.
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Register @Null and forget the password, then everyone has a good place to send PMs.
Good idea; however, how would I avoid being spammed with emails by the PMing? Do I need a throwaway address such as a Mailinator as well?
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Turn off the various email-related preferences.
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Good idea; however, how would I avoid being spammed with emails by the PMing?
That will spoil the fun for the rest of us, frankly.
I'm a little unclear on why you'd want to do this sort of thing.
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I'm a little unclear on why you'd want to do this sort of thing.
A "notebook" of sorts for bookkeeping purposes, in my case. I know, this is Discurse abuse...but it'd be easier to manage than some other mechanism.
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Whoosh? I think @boomzilla was asking why you'd want to spoil our fun spamming you.
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A "notebook" of sorts for bookkeeping purposes, in my case. I know, this is Discurse abuse...but it'd be easier to manage than some other mechanism.
It's only a little better than using discourse as a bug tracker. I think.
Whoosh? I think @boomzilla was asking why you'd want to spoil our fun spamming you.
No, I was actually legitimately asking, though I can see how you could take it either way. I was certainly snarking on that topic.
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Definitely @DevNull
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As in an actual administrator, I take it? Sounds like something I'm not terribly concerned about for my particular use case...
As in someone like me.
Admins: do you concur with the use of @PaulaBean as a PM black hole/bitbucket device?
@PaulaBean is registered to a live email account, I wouldn't suggest using that. @system doesn't have an email so that one's probably fair game.
@DevNull has now been created for your enjoyment.
As has @null.
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Presumably it's been mentioned that pm-ing a nonexistent user is bugged to fuck?
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I have no idea what that's supposed to mean.
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Go Discourse!
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Go @ArAnToR!!
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Curiously enough that's about the most accurate anyone has ever said it without me explicitly telling them the pronunciation. Everyone says it 'ah-rant-or' like there's some deeper meaning about the choice for my wannabe-blakeyrants, but it's always been 'Ah-rahn-tor', elongating the A in the middle, which is matched by your mixed case.
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'Ah-rahn-tor'
I always went with Ahrr-ahn-torr and took you where some kind of Nordic pirate.
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That's less wrong than most people!
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actually i would have guessed the correct pronunciation!
Yay me.
my turn. how do you pronounce my name?
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actually i would have guessed the correct pronunciation!
Yay me.
my turn. how do you pronounce my name?
"ah-cahl-ee-ah"?
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pretty good actually. I usually go for the hard
k
sound rather than the softerc
sound myself*, but other than that, pretty good.you would be surprised how many people have trouble with that name.
*: not that you can tell the difference unless you are really concentrating
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That's less wrong than most people!
I got it wrong - the correct pronunciation seems too posh for me.
my turn. how do you pronounce my name?
Ack-al-ee-a.
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Ack-al-ee-a.
yeah, that's the one i get most often, and it's correct enough that i respond to it without comment, the trouble (if such it be) is that the name i have chosen for myself does not come from a Latin based language so the rules of where to split the syllables are slightly different.
of course it's still an Indo-European base language (either a Celtic or Germanic, the etymology of the name breaks down a bit towards the end) so i don't quite get the same level of confusion that one with an Asiatic based name would (in America at least, I presume it may be different in other countries)
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my turn. how do you pronounce my name?
Necro! Thanks discourse!
I was going with ach-al-eeya, turning the "cc" into "č" basically…