I'm not following. I thought you were talking about PM'ing a stranger/prospective client on this site unsolicited, asking for a date. A member not logging on is a completely different issue.
Originally Posted by Charno3
Do you remember playing the telephone game aka Chinese whispers as a child?
It is an internationally popular children's game where players form a line, the first player comes up with a message and whispers it to the ear of the second person in the line. The second player repeats the message to the third player, and so on. When the last player is reached, they announce the message they heard to the entire group.
The first person then compares the original message with the final version. Although the objective is to pass around the message without it becoming garbled along the way, part of the enjoyment is that, regardless, this usually ends up happening. Errors typically accumulate in the retellings, so the statement announced by the last player differs significantly from that of the first player, usually with amusing or humorous effect. Reasons for changes include anxiousness or impatience, erroneous corrections, the difficult-to-understand mechanism of whispering, and that
some players may deliberately alter what is being said to guarantee a changed message by the end of the line.
As the first player: I have given the straightforward layout of an introductory PM.(Visiting, Inviting and their option to reply.
As one of the current last players: BBG says “Messaging a stranger to see if they want to screen & have a date is strange and inappropriate”
Those who LOVE gossip keep this game alive and forever changing.
So... PM’ing a member on this site is what we were talking about.
Asking a member to be screened or have a date is where some players may have deliberately altered what was actually sent.
