I've run into this a few times now... people with private messaging disabled.
Is disabled the default state for new members? Or are people actively going and disabling it? Seems a little weird to disable that feature.

Hi Akhenaten -- private messaging is indeed enabled by default. Quite a few members choose to disable it for whatever reason.

Hm, OK then. Very strange.

I think people who disable receiving pms should be disable to send them too. I've received one from a user who could not receive mine.

(April 25, 2014, 8:42 pm)themente I think people who disable receiving pms should be disable to send them too. I've received one from a user who could not receive mine.

Yeah, it's actually getting a little obnoxious. A person keeps PMing me asking for help, which I'd be more than happy to give, but apparently the genius went and manually disabled the ability to receive PMs. It makes no fucking sense and is kinda getting on my nerves. Could we just disable the ability to disable? Why is this even an option?

I wasn't aware that sending is still possible upon disabling the PM function. It might be the case that upon commencing a discussion, PM functionality persists even after shutting it off -- either way, I'll look into it. Ideally combined control of sending/receiving can be sorted out, and if not, private messaging will be permanently on and users will only have the option of disabling email notifications (and contacting by email).