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SleepPunk wrote:

ozij wrote:

SleepPunk wrote:We have personalized the email notifications with screen names (example of body of email: Hello SleepPunk, you have received a...) to make interaction with the site more warm and friendly.

I prefer warm and friendly interactions to come from warm and friendly human beings - there is enough warmth and friendliness in the human interactions on this forum to have kept me here for more than 3 years.

I do not need - nor want - pseudo "personalized" notifications from what I had supposed was an impersonal robot that did not use my screen name in connection with my email. I find that kind of fake friendliness disconcerting. I was obviously wrong in what I understood when reading the registration screen info 3 years ago.

feeling_better wrote:More things are connected together and sent around in emails or other forms, greater the chance for somebody to get that type of information.

Exactly.
Furthermore, by connecting screen names to users email addresses, cpap.com has created at least one more connection in their system between usernames and screen names - and we have no idea how many users use the cpap@cpaptalk user account, know its password, deal with its address list, etc.

As for adding the PM text: I now realize that one of these days, when the database gets messed up, the text of my PM might arrive in somebody else's email. I will certainly keep that in mind. A person's ability to read my PM is no longer dependent on their ability to log in to cpaptalk, only on their ability (or somebody else's) to log in to their email.

Personally, nobody but me has access to my email - but - passwords can be cracked, email databases moved from one place to another. Many people - especially those older than 40 have younger relatives helping them with their email - and other computer related chores. Why should anyone's grandchild, say: "Huh? Where'd you get that nickname from?"

O.

Hi ozij,

All duly noted and moved up the chain for discussions and decisions. Does anyone else on the board have an opinion, one way or the other, about this particular matter?

Snoredog wrote:I'd REMOVE the damn DELETE button, it has caused nothing but problems on this board ever since it was enabled for spam control.

Posters like mkirkwag are now able to delete entire treads!!

You should only be able to Edit your own posts and NOT delete it and others posts especially not the associated posts contained within a tread or those contributed by others.

By allowing this to continue, it effectively eliminates all the efforts and contributions put in by others when contributing to a particular post/thread.

As a general rule, I don't usually respond to questions submitted to me in PM's and I get them all the time. I feel by responding in PM's that no one in the public forum learns from the answer, therefore I generally only reply in the public forum.

However, some people don't like hearing the truth in the public forum for whatever the reason and get offended by that then go off on a tangent with the Delete button. This time they not only deleted all my responses they deleted the responses of the other contributors on the forum.

SleepPunk wrote:In fact.... if I post again, right after my previous post (like I am doing now)... I no longer can delete the post above this one. BUT I can delete this post before someone responds now. Nobody, except someone with Admin privileges can delete other members posts. Report Spam is a different story. I believe Johnny Goodman monitors those regularly and decides what is truly spam and what is not. If he decides it is spam... it gets deleted.

Snoredog wrote:

SleepPunk wrote:In fact.... if I post again, right after my previous post (like I am doing now)... I no longer can delete the post above this one. BUT I can delete this post before someone responds now. Nobody, except someone with Admin privileges can delete other members posts. Report Spam is a different story. I believe Johnny Goodman monitors those regularly and decides what is truly spam and what is not. If he decides it is spam... it gets deleted.

a complete thread disappeared, not just mine but others who contributed to it must have been 10 or more posts in it. I know Goofproof responded to it along with me, either that or something is up cause it appears to be gone.

SleepPunk wrote:

Snoredog wrote:

SleepPunk wrote:In fact.... if I post again, right after my previous post (like I am doing now)... I no longer can delete the post above this one. BUT I can delete this post before someone responds now. Nobody, except someone with Admin privileges can delete other members posts. Report Spam is a different story. I believe Johnny Goodman monitors those regularly and decides what is truly spam and what is not. If he decides it is spam... it gets deleted.

a complete thread disappeared, not just mine but others who contributed to it must have been 10 or more posts in it. I know Goofproof responded to it along with me, either that or something is up cause it appears to be gone.

Hrmmmm. Well, veddy intervesting. I suppose someone could have reported as spam and Johnny made a mistake and deleted? I dunno. One other person mentioned a post disappearing from a thread/topic. Anyone else have this issue? Let's keep our eyes open for this. We certainly don't want a bug like THAT!

Oh do you remember the topic at all? Is this the one? viewtopic/p291274/viewtopic.php?p=291057
I will say, it is possible the original poster edited their topic title and that might make it hard to recognize or find again on the list of topics.

SleepPunk wrote:Hi Everyone,

Thanks very much for sharing your opinions and views about this. We have mulled it over and looked at all sides and I think we understand a little better now the concerns. We are in the process of changing it back to the old way. Basically, no usernames in the email notifications and no text of the PM in the email notifications. This should be in place soon. Thanks for letting us know what ya'll want!

Julie wrote:Hi, this is the Nth time I've had to log in since the site change (nice!) even though I check the box saying to do it automatically. Can you please help? Thanks!

SleepyDragon wrote:I'm trying to enter my ResMed VPAP III machine in my equipment profile, but I can't find it in the drop down list and it apparently doesn't let me enter it in freeform. Is it in the profile under another name? I'm a complete 5 week old newb to CPAP.