Question-and-Answer Resource for the Building Energy Modeling Community
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In general, Unmet Hours follows the same rules as Stack Overflow. Here is their response to the idea of private messaging:
The consistent response to this is that it's a bad idea, because:
It could hide information from the community: useful information transmitted privately is unavailable to other readers, subverting the core purpose of the site.
It could be used to harass other users ("Answer my question!", "Accept my answer!", "Yer momma so fat she overflows the stack!", etc...)
You can read the full post here.
Anyone can post their email address in their profile body text (Note: the actual "Email" field on your profile is hidden from other users for privacy reasons).
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In general, Unmet Hours follows the same rules as Stack Overflow. Here is their response to the idea of private messaging:
The consistent response to this is that it's a bad idea, because:
It could hide information from the community: useful information transmitted privately is unavailable to other readers, subverting the core purpose of the site.
It could be used to harass other users ("Answer my question!", "Accept my answer!", "Yer momma so fat she overflows the stack!", etc...)
You can read the full post here.
Anyone can post their email address in their profile body text (Note: the actual "Email" field on your profile is hidden from other users for privacy reasons).
If you need to communicate with other users outside the context of a specific question or answer, I suggest using the Unmet Hours Slack channel.
| | 3 | No.3 Revision |
In general, Unmet Hours follows the same rules as Stack Overflow. Here is their response to the idea of private messaging:
The consistent response to this is that it's a bad idea, because:
It could hide information from the community: useful information transmitted privately is unavailable to other readers, subverting the core purpose of the site.
It could be used to harass other users ("Answer my question!", "Accept my answer!", "Yer momma so fat she overflows the stack!", etc...)
Though in our case it might be: "...she puts the 'load' in unmet load hours". Not cool.
You can read the full post here.
Anyone can post their email address in their profile body text (Note: the actual "Email" field on your profile is hidden from other users for privacy reasons).
If you need to communicate with other users outside the context of a specific question or answer, I suggest using the Unmet Hours Slack channel.
