[wp-forums] Sigh. Contacting OP off site?

[andrew nevins]

That does lead me to wonder how often it is that people try to contact the
original posters off WordPress.org, the ones that don't ask for contact
details on threads but actually just contact the OP through their site


On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:53 AM, andrew nevins <andrew.nevins.misc at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Yeah Knoppy is still trying to contact the guy *through WordPress.org*. I
> would not doubt that he would have posted that again if he found contact
> details on the OP's site. So, because he hasn't got the contact details
> he's trying to use that thread to get it out of the OP (even if not
> directly on that thread).
>
> BTW Alchymyth and I responded at the same time, cross-posted (that's why
> it looks a bit overkill), about the OP bumping, but that's separate to
> Knoppy.
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Jan Dembowski <jan at dembowski.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Good morning,
>>
>> Jan drinks serious coffee
>>
>> Sanity check for me: this user was coded as a precaution for attempting
>> to have the OP contact him off site.
>>
>> https://wordpress.org/support/profile/knoppys
>> https://wordpress.org/support/topic/after-up-grade-a-cant-
>> manege-my-website?replies=19&view=all#post-5315590
>>
>> I deleted the post and left a "Hey please don't do that mkaythanks" reply
>> with a link.
>>
>> The user responded well and the topic proceeded. But this part of the
>> reply puzzled me.
>>
>> @tosi, perhaps you should check out your contact page, it seems your
>> contact details are not on your site. You contact details could be
>> "important" if someone was trying to contact you.
>>
>> Which made me put on a pot of coffee (it wasn't setup last night, GAH)
>> and reply again. I'm also giving the topic some real attention as I don't
>> think the OP should be distracted and I see Andrew and alchymyth are
>> replying too which is good.
>>
>> Waves to both Andrew andalchymyth
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jan "Coffee is good" Dembowski
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