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I Have my VMs off.
What is your opinion on visitor messages? Do you leave them open to the public or put them on privacy?
I have my VMs on private & to contacts only for personal reasons. I will never have them up to everyone, not after what happened to me when I had them open to everyone. PM me about it if you're curious about it. |
I only disable mine if I am on vacation and don't want to feel obligated to respond. Otherwise I leave them open for everyone to see!
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I keep mine open so anyone can talk if they want to, I may make friends that way. I like that we can talk to people this way.
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Always have that open-door policy for my profile.
Also because the only other way of contact to me otherwise on PC is PM and that feels extra effort. |
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Pretty much what Hades said, VMs are great for conversations, and I've made most of my friends on PC through VM. I guess PM conversations are a thing too, but I'm not quite as good with keeping up with those.
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Always open. I'm incredibly lonely. Please talk to me.
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I have mine on. Even though I'm not really a super talkative or responsive person, PMs make me far more nervous as a means of contact. Because it feels like it's just me and that person trapped alone in a room. And I don't like to feel trapped in conversations due to my timidity. A visitor message is more casual, and less pressure.
Also, I might find someone interesting to talk to. Or maybe someone wants to tell me something real quick. Communication is always important. |
Always on, can't imagine turning them off. I like talking to people and dunno how I'd even be able to stick around if I didn't have people I could return and babble to.
Soo anyone can VM me if they so desire. 8] |
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I have my PM box open always, but I see people here don't like the private message system. I actually prefer it because no one can read my messages that way. Honestly, I'm shocked so many people are open with VMs. I guess I'm just not anymore. Maybe I'm just being stupid about it. |
I keep them on because I'm lonely and only want friends and people to talk to me.
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I like the VM. I will always reply if someone post me a VM, and I am not afraid to post random Vm on a profile if I want to compliment the profile or avatar, signature, etc.
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I keep them open so anyone who wants to say hi or whatever can do so. The only reasons I can see to turn them off is if you are being spammed or bullied in some way, honestly.
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I keep mine open. That way, if anyone wants to just drop by and say something to me, they can. It's a good way to start conversations with people that I might not get a chance to talk to otherwise. PMs just feel like more official business, or for things that should be kept private. But I have no issue with other people seeing my VM conversations because there's nothing in there too incriminating.
And if someone spams/bullies me through VM, they didn't think things out too well. |
I've been having them on all the time and I plan to keep them open 24/7. I hate to deny anyone a way for them to talk to me in some sort of way, unless I just don't want to talk to a specific person in that case I would either ignore them or let them know in a polite manner that I really do not want to talk to them. The only way that I can see myself turning off VMs for me is if there is some sort of problem and to stop it temporarily or what I can I would have to turn them off until a further notice when whatever the problem may happen to be is resolved, however I do not see that happening ever and I can only see a 5% chance that it will ever happen so as far as I am concerned, VMs for me are going to be left on all day every day.
As for what I think of VMs, personally in terms of how they are now I like them more than PMs and I much prefer to use them over PMs. PMs take a good amount of space, they must be organized, and honestly I think they are a lot more difficult to keep track of. VMs add an easy way for someone to just send me a message or for me to send someone a message and they are much more well organized since I can easily go through them and see what I'm looking for. PMs on the other hand, since there is a limit I will eventually run out of space, and even still I still have to go through them to find something to refer back to since quoting the previous message in a PM and constantly quoting it makes it a giant mess and usually I end up getting rid of those quotes after a while since it becomes really disgusting to look at and if I don't then the other sender will because it is a nuisance to them and looks terrible (Or at least that is what I assume on why they do get rid of it). VMs on the other hand I can easily refer back to something if needed, and I have the previous few messages to refer back to right there in front of me. PMs do make it simple like that as well with the qutoes, but again, after just a few, it's painful for me to even look at because it looks so nasty after a while and I end up wanting to get rid of those because of how nasty it looks or the other person gets rid of them. The only reason why I would ever use PMs is if it is something private and I don't want to anyone else to see it nor should anyone else be able to see it. To sum it up, I love VMs. |
I love love love VMs! I love receiving them, it can even make my day sometimes when I log on and see I have a bunch of VMs. It's a nice little gesture. Chatting via VM is my favorite way to talk to new people especially, it's comfy and because it's public I don't feel as anxious. In my bio at one point it even said I love receiving VMs from anyone, anytime. :D
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Me again, hi. I see everyone is all open with having VMs open door. Since I'm gonna be annoying and explain a bit... I guess I'm just really uncomfortable by it. Guess I'm just being silly, but I don't like the idea of everyone being able to see my conversations, and I don't like the idea of talking to everyone, no offense or anything. I'm easily overwhelmed by the idea of being out in the public. I like the comfort of only the people who I consider my friends able to visitor message me. Guess I'm kinda stranger danger, and very cautious of people is all. =/ I don't know, I just don't like the feeling of everyone being able to see my messages on my profile, thus the heavy privacy.
Guess I'm just aloof. I always have been. I'm sorry that I'm so odd. |
I locked my VM due to people arranging trade shop business with me through VM (more frequent back then). While there's isn't any wrong about that, it's easy to miss a request if I'm not careful enough (for example like accidentally clicking into my own profile). So yeah, the main reason is for clumsiness-prevention!
If you wanna talk or anything, shoot me a PM and I'll add you to the contact list. (: |
When I attempted to leave the community back in 2012 due to a smod abusing his powers on me, I disabled literally all my contact on this forum and tried to see if people would adjust without me. I ended up coming back after a few days, but I also had a lot of new members I was welcoming ask me ROM Hacking questions (a section that I'm very weak in) and it led to me restricting my PMs.
These days I'm less prone to that sort of breakdown and I find VM's a faster way to contact so I mostly recommend using VMs if you're doing small talk and only leave PMs to the more serious stuff that absolutely needs them. Also, given I have a tendency to say hello to new members it makes sense that I leave my VMs open because I like it when people chat with me. |
Mine are set to contacts-only at the moment for various reasons. I don't mind so much that people can't reply to my messages if I post them a birthday greeting or whatever; I don't do it so I can get a message in return. My PMs are open, so it's not like people not on my contacts list don't have any way to get in touch with me if they feel the need to for whatever reason.
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I keep mine open, I've never really said anything in a VM that I wouldn't want anyone to see afaik, and if there's something I don't really wanna say publicly, then I'll PM it. But I'm fine with both PMs or VMs really for conversation, use whichever one you want with me (my PM box space is huge anyway, #modperks). The real question is why you'd wanna have an (extended) conversation with me
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I like getting VMs :) so mine are always open & the same goes for PMs.
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I love VMs! It's a fun little way to get to know people in the community and it helps me recognize individuals more if I get a chance to chit-chat with them a bit. I've never really been big on PMs, like it was aforementioned PMs just seem to pretty much only be for 'business' like inquiries with mods or for trades.
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I've been here since before VMs were. PMs have always been perfectly adequate, with the additional benefit of privacy (even admins can't access them unless they're reported, afaik), so there's just never been a reason to enable VMs.
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i might as well just turn them off since i suck at replying in a timely manner
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