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so kinda like walls but private. Some random person said they wanted to talk to people without hearing a bunch of stupid stuff, so I'm just here to garner points.

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ha im that random person lol
but i meant it as something more like google hangouts, where its a chat room with only invited people.

eg:
ItsYaBoiFlareon added Glazio Kawaii to the private chat room Friends
ItsYaBoiFlareon added Mega-Blade X to the private chat room Friends.
Mega-Blade X removed ItsYaBoiFlareon from the chat room Friends.

like that (also, why X why)
I swear that this was suggested recently, but I can't find anything.
I don't think that private messaging would be very good for the site. It'd probably cause unnecessary drama at some point, and there's no way we can moderate it. A decent portion of the users here are younger, and while I'm not someone to be all like "predators are everywhere on the internet!!!!!! strangers are all dangerous!!!!", but things like that do happen, and adding a private messaging system would make that a possibility here, where, without it, if we see anything strange going on, we can quickly deal with it. This is a Pokemon forum website, there shouldn't really be much of a need to discuss anything privately. Using something made specifically for messaging, like Discord or Hangouts, would be a much better experience, anyway.
hmm guess thats true but people like me dont like giving out their emails and/or dont ave discord
I literally only posted this for points. I couldn't care less about private messages
That's known as the PX special
I'd like PMs for convenience but I agree that itd call more problems than it's worth. There's a handful of users who can't/won't use discord or other chats and being able to dm would be helpful, but those are fringe cases
yeah, i guess that's true
hey i found a dupe now close the question before I get an answer that gets loads of upvotes and makes me feel less worthwhile as a human: https://pokemondb.net/pokebase/meta/45449/private-chat-rooms
That was 6 years ago, PMs stance or how it would be implemented could have changed since then

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