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Skyla wrote: "Not all librarians with private profiles have the friends only setting though. I don't. Anyone can PM but I have my profile set to private at the moment because of some backlash against reviewers."And that's fine. Perfectly okay to keep privacy; perfectly okay to block or flag messages from anyone bothering you by pm (even fellow librarians).
But often would be helpful to communicate with a fellow librarian (when not a major issue or some continually ongoing problem that needs staff involvement. Maybe just a simple question or to point out links to ongoing group threads for an author or book they are currently editing,...lots of authors/members/librarians don't always check back on a thread once their particulalr issue was marked "fixed" or realize something different being done on same book/author/series on different thread).
Admittedly, with my pm's set to receive from any goodreads members I have had almost no problems (oddly the few I did came from author members who sent me friend requests and then immediately sent spam messages; apparently never checked to see if only friends could send; just flagged spam and was dealt with).
Possibly if not "required" should be gently "suggested"; pm's are quicker and can head off some back and forth changes or make librarians working on one thread aware that the same book/author/series issues are on five or six threads.
I could have sworn they made a change in regards to this, I definitely remember something about this issue discussed before. Maybe its set up so that super librarians can message all librarians? (Or maybe I'm just crazy?) If you want to PM me a link to a librarian you can't message I can look and confirm that. :P
Can't edit through the Android app, but I just saw that Banjomike came across someone un-PM-able in another thread, so I guess I'm wrong. I definitely know we've had this conversation before though. :x
Vicky wrote: "I could have sworn they made a change in regards to this, I definitely remember something about this issue discussed before. Maybe its set up so that super librarians can message all librarians? (Or maybe I'm just crazy?)"Probably no, but I had to message support today because a librarian has a private profile with no way to send messages directly to him.
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Never happened. Not likely to either, because of how such permissions work and privacy concerns.
Edit: And the issue isn't private profiles, in any case. It's whether one allows messages from non-friends. One can have a private profile and messaging open to everyone.
Supers have no additional powers in terms of messaging and if I remember correctly neither does rivka but she has another way to email rather than PM (but I may have remembered incorrectly)In addition, if users have blocked other users then their profiles become private to with no message ability.
I would not want people I have blocked to be able to message me just because we are both librarians.
Contacting GR Support and asking them to contact the user with your concerns for me is the way to go and what I do
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While that's correct (and true for all staff members), in general we prefer messages about concerns librarians may have about other users be sent via the Contact Us link. Not directly to me, please.
Paula wrote: "I would not want people I have blocked to be able to message me just because we are both librarians...."Me neither.
(Not opposed to, for the sake of respecting someone's privacy, some standard message that would, say nothing except "see this thread in librarian group" and the thread would explain the issue without naming names).
If not something easy for developer to do, possibly it should be a requirement for becoming a librarian that you need to be able to receive pm's from other librarians so will have to adjust your settings.