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I often see people saying “DM me” or “PM me” on Hacker News but they have no contact information in their profile and HN doesn’t offer a direct messaging featur
by rrdharan 4y ago
I often see people saying “DM me” or “PM me” on Hacker News but they have no contact information in their profile and HN doesn’t offer a direct messaging feature.
Is this just because people forget which platform they’re on? Is it because they don’t remember what’s in their profile? Or is there some other way to DM people that I don’t know about?
- shocks 4y agoLitmus test I guess. Parent is fairly trivial to contact if you can use Google.
- rrdharan 4y agoThey’re quite trivial to identify; they are not “fairly” trivial to contact unless GitHub or Stack Exchange has some DM capability I’m also unaware of. Poster’s Web site has no official contact info. Yes, I’m sure I could keep digging and find a way but I don’t consider that “fairly trivial”.
- klohto 4y agoWell, there is LinkedIn, as well as his company email format. It’s really not that hard.
- yomkippur 4y agoJust googled phtrivier and got no results. Seems kinda weird
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- phtrivier 4y agoThat's my bad, I was actually also pretty sure there was a "standard" way to dm on HN. But yeah, I'm probably the one you would find on LK of GH. No Twitter cause I'm a recovering addict :D