User blog comment:Cristina7/Introducing Discussions, a New Platform For Engaging Your Community/@comment-2061246-20170109213725

Is there any way we're going to incorporate private messaging or profile messaging into the Wikia App itself?

We have a fair share of troublemakers and off-topic posters posting nonsense in our Discussions. As a moderator, we would like to give those users a fair warning about their posts. The problem is that our Wikia is created for a mobile game and is popular amongst a lot of pubescent teens, and so they have a tendency to post off-topic posts a lot. While, in good practice, locking the post and posting the fair warning in that post is a good measure to warn the said users, our Discussions looks really messy if there is an enormous amount of locked spam replied with moderator warnings. If we could have private messaging or profile messaging, that would help us mitigate any excessive spam in the Discussions. That way, we can delete the spam, while also giving a fair warning in a private message, rather than having a ton of locked posts with those moderator warnings. And while we would do this in the Desktop version of the app, a very large majority of our Discussions users don't use the Desktop version, so they don't have access to their own Message Wall for private messaging. Private or profile messages would help us out a lot in mitigating any troublesome users, while also being fair in warnings.