Hi all,
Can you tell me what you think. I joined Candle Tech a candle making forum a month or two ago. I use it mainly for info because it is mainly Americans using it so a lot of the stuff doesn't apply to the UK.
However, I do talk to the UK candlemakers that are on the forum. We PM, e-mail and talk to each other on the phone.
I answered an e-mail from Yvette at Wick n Wax (a new member to this forum too) I went Hi Yvette, Blah, Blah, Blah (as I pretty much do with all my posts I think it is very impersonal if you know the persons name you are answering not to use it!). Well I got this f*** wit complaining that I had used the persons name and not their user name. Saying just because you have PM'd doesn't mean you know the person. Well I hadn't actually been on the forum for a couple of days so luckily enough one of us British Girls answered back saying that we actually knew each other and this was perfectly normal and acceptable.
What do you all think, do you find it offensive if someone uses your real name in a post!!
Well Peter you would have been proud of the reply that message got!!! I was very very polite but ended up with something like a "nit picking time waster".
Can you tell me what you think. I joined Candle Tech a candle making forum a month or two ago. I use it mainly for info because it is mainly Americans using it so a lot of the stuff doesn't apply to the UK.
However, I do talk to the UK candlemakers that are on the forum. We PM, e-mail and talk to each other on the phone.
I answered an e-mail from Yvette at Wick n Wax (a new member to this forum too) I went Hi Yvette, Blah, Blah, Blah (as I pretty much do with all my posts I think it is very impersonal if you know the persons name you are answering not to use it!). Well I got this f*** wit complaining that I had used the persons name and not their user name. Saying just because you have PM'd doesn't mean you know the person. Well I hadn't actually been on the forum for a couple of days so luckily enough one of us British Girls answered back saying that we actually knew each other and this was perfectly normal and acceptable.
What do you all think, do you find it offensive if someone uses your real name in a post!!
Well Peter you would have been proud of the reply that message got!!! I was very very polite but ended up with something like a "nit picking time waster".

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