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melannen ([personal profile] melannen) wrote in [site community profile] dw_suggestions2010-10-14 02:11 am

Scheduled Private Messages

Title:
Scheduled Private Messages

Area:
Inbox

Summary:
We're getting scheduled posts, that we can write in advance to automatically post at a later date. Can we get scheduled private messages, too?

Description:
I'm currently organizing a community project that involves people signing up to do certain things on certain days. It would be really cool if, right when they sign up, I could schedule a reminder message to be sent to them just before their date.

I think there are a lot of projects like this where pre-scheduled deadline reminders could make people's managing a lot easier. You could do all sorts of other neat things with this capability, too. Especially if you could send scheduled PMs to yourself.

The only downside I can see is if people abuse it to spam other users; but you can already ban people from PMing you, so I don't see that as being a big problem.

Poll #4876 Scheduled Private Messages
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 66


This suggestion:

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Should be implemented as-is.
46 (69.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (6.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (1.5%)

(I have no opinion)
15 (22.7%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

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[personal profile] dchan 2010-10-29 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
+1, with the changes that [personal profile] azurelunatic suggested.