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Private Messages on Talkback - Webbo?!!
I have received two messages today and each time I had to click on both 'Inbox' and 'Lizy' to clear the little red number.
When I did so I found I could read the PMs sent by that person to other people.
Surely this shouldn't be able to happen?
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For a consideration I could tell you a thing or two, though.
I flagged your post for Webbo.
Until it's sorted out you can always delete any 'sensitive' conversations just in case.
Then I clicked on the name of my correspondent and suddenly there were all kinds of messages that he/she had sent to other people.
I click on the red alert on my name and both 'reds' [one on name, one on inbox] disappear.
I can see private messages from people to others - as experienced by Lizy and Maro. As of this minute, I'm deleting all of my private messages to anyone I've ever contacted. However, unless everyone else does the same, your messages are open to view if people click on the right (or wrong) bits. Until this problem is properly fixed - and guaranteed to be secure - I would suggest the site administrators delete the PM option OR make TB users aware their messages are accessible.
1 The big, inviting, text box when you click on someone's name is for a public message that will appear on their profile page (like posting on somebody's wall in Facebook).
2 in the left hand side of a user's profile page, below their image, is a link to: 'Send xxx a message', which is the option for private messaging that isn't visible to anyone else.
What you're describing here, Mrs B: is the path to a user's profile page, the same as if you had clicked on a name on a post, e.g. mine on this post, and the public "wall" messages are displayed on users' profile pages.
You and I [Edit: Liz] actually went through it in January, as you can see from my wall!
*Still confused!!* I must be very stupid...
Although obviously there has been some confusion about what that box is for, so I'll have to see if I can signpost that more clearly.
*makes note in diary*
Um - maybe everyone needs to be properly alerted to these crucial differences?
The other type, you can only get by visiting someone's profile page, then typing into that box.
OK, I've looked at my Inbox on my profile page.
If I click on a message it says 'in this conversation'. Am I right in thinking that only the people named as being 'in this conversation' can see it?
But the good thing to know is that if you used the 'send PM' thing in the same line as the 'like' and 'quote' and 'flag' next to someone's name in any of the boxes on the threads, than what you are sending is private and although you can see it no-one else can.
Perhaps if Webbo took pictures of what is a private place and way to message and what is NOT the private way and made it a sticky for new people?
Before 9pm, Liz?
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*strips*
I have been away for two days and come back to this!
I have never - that I recall - instigated a private message to anyone, but a few times I've answered one. I have assumed up to now that a PM is like those on Facebook - Private - and there fore not accessible to anyone except the Powers That Be or to a hacker.
As this is clearly not the case I shall refrain from saying anything sensitive until it's sorted out. Except that "clearly" is not the most apt word in this case. Assuming that all of us can follow the intricacies is wrong.
I do not have my ten-year-old grandson on speed-dail!
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I'm very sentimental about 'things'. I still have a crisp packet from primary school and my Smartie lid collection.
I will have dealt with any information as it arose.