It's because some people don't respond to the PMs and don't even check their inbox. They usually check their own threads and hence when you say that you have sent them a PM, they go and check their inbox (it's necessary as sometimes a member who has offered a job/task receives too many PMs and hence he doesn't respond to all or misses out some pms). I know it's sounds silly but it's necessary to do that especially when it's a task in the Services section as usually people need just 1-2 members to do their work and when there is no reply on their thread, another member thinks that nobody is doing that job when actually they might be.
Hmm, I see. It's kind of hard in my opinion to not notice PMs though, but I guess that's a valid argument. Surely the pop up notification that tells you about an unread private message draws your attention to it, though?
looks like that feature is actually an option that's disabled by default... either that or I changed it and forgot.
It is? I never remember enabling it, perhaps it just slipped my memory then...that's understandable if it isn't enabled by default, I was assuming it was as I never remember having enabled it. Alright then, thanks. I'll lock the thread, question has been answered.
