Allow a comment to an entry to be sent as a PM

[ivorygates]

Title:
Allow a comment to an entry to be sent as a PM

Area:
entries

Summary:
If we had the option to reply to comments in our own journals in the form of a PM to the person who commented as well as in the form of a comment, it would be cool.

Description:
This is not a problem-solving suggestion. But there are times that you want to respond to a comment privately, either to provide sensitive information or just to tell the person to STFU without embarassing them. Or even to provide sekrit information that the other people reading your journal can't see. And it's a PITA to have to hunt your way over to their journal and construct a PM when you could just have one-touch shopping.

And if doing that didn't unscreen their comment -- if you happen to have all comments screened -- that would be even more awesome! It would be a way to reply to unscreened comments without opening the thread of discourse for general view.

Poll #709

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 39

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Should be implemented as-is.
15 (38.5%)

Should be implemented with changes.
3 (7.7%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
17 (43.6%)

(Other: please comment)
4 (10.3%)

Comments

[zarhooie]

There's a fairly good workaround to this that's already in place. If you hover over the userhead of any user who allows random PMs, there's an option to send them a message. I use this *all the time* and it works fairly well.

ETA: I should finish my sentences before TAB+enter-ing!
ETAETA: I should also read previous comments before commenting. :-x

[mordyn4]

Oh yeah, the hover menus..... I disabled them so I forgot about them. Hrm. Otherwise I thought this was a cool idea.

[ivorygates]

Hm. True. But I envision the PM as including the text of the comment being replied to, so that's a little different from the PM function you describe.