Visitor Messages

[Batleth]

When that feature was added to vB, we decided at that point to not add that to our forums. We feel for various reasons, it would be best to leave off;

• Something like that would have to be moderated, causing extra work for the mods.
• I've seen them on many forum sites and most are just spam messages.
• Profile customizations will be dropped in the next version of vB, so not much reason to contact them about that soon.
• Too easy for users to use these as a place to flame or troll each other, hence why they'd have to be moderated.
• Instead of being able to view users info right away, visitor messages would be the first tab making it another step for many.
• We want to encourage discussions. This would just distract from people making actual posts or PMs.