Please don't do this. By and large, staff much prefer to have all interactions take place over email, and rarely, if ever, check PMs on the GDB.
I've gotten a few lately, and it looks like it may be a growing trend, so please do cease it if you get the inclination.
By the same token, please don't send emails ONLY to a staff member. Always CC with either the clan account or the general mud email address.
These measures are in place to hold up accountability on all ends, staff included.
I'll second this. The advantage for me of having players use a single channel of communication - my armageddon.org address - is that the mail is in one place and I can refer back to it without having to hunt through my non-game email, PMs on this board, IMs, Facebook mail, MySpace mail. etc. I've gotten game-related stuff in all of those channels and would really prefer folks use the sanvean AT armageddon.org mail.
Apparently this needs to be bumped.
Bumping this thread and making it sticky. Please to be taking as a reminder.
Bumping and updating to say, submit a request!
Bumpin' again. Please send in a request when you need to ask staff a question. Do not send PMs to staff. Thanks!
Bumping this again. Send in requests if you need to talk to staff. Please follow instructions on this, we do not use GDB PMs.
Hey. This again. Do not send PMs to staff, send requests through the request tool.
When I get a PM, I will totally just delete it, so...just saying, please use the request tool if you want to communicate with staff. This is for lots of reasons.
1. We don't ever check PMs except to delete them and then post announcements saying not to send them
2. Your request can't get lost in the system
3. There's accountability for responses there
If you want to send a message "just" to one staffer, don't send a PM. We don't read these. There's no accountability to these. You are creating unnecessary work for staff for them to reply to them; if any staff members do reply, they have to go toss it up somewhere (either in an e-mail or on the IDB).
If you do get it in your head to send a PM, don't start out your PM with "I know you guys don't read this." You are stating that you know the guidelines and how you SHOULD do things, you just don't care (which is admittedly disrespectful, so if you do get a response, know that it was undeserved--feel grateful!)
If you want to vent to something and not get a response, write up a note in wordpad.
If you want to vent on something and do want a response, put in a request through the request tool.
Just a note here but this should not be possible anymore with active staff. All PMs have been blocked on staff accounts.