The SmartBear community news journals aren't soliciting ads necessarily but simply to summarize activity on the community here... the philosophy behind it is that this is a bit more than just a help forum but an actual community of folks with common goals of software testing and quality, specifically using the SmartBear tools. To that end, being kept in the loop as to the activity across the community forums is actual kind of nice.... it indicates trends in conversations, where activity is happening, interesting topics, etc.
But I understand the annoyance to some extent... I guess an "opt-in/opt-out" would probably be nice... personally, I'd opt-in... but that's my opinion.
I do agree that an opt-in/opt out feature would be nice. I just highly dislike the use of private messaging to communicate this to users.
Champion Level 3I like tristaanogre's polite suggestion. Just my .02 cents.
>.02 cents
That's inflation for ya.
AlumniHello Everyone,
As a SmartBear Community Manager, I want to make sure that each community member gets as many benefits as possible from the membership. Here, we don't only resolve technical questions (which, of course, plays the most important role in the community), we live here - we talk with peers, share our thoughts, learn new things, make plans to meet at different conferences :)
By sharing the community news and latest events with all of you via private messages, I want to show you the rich SmartBear Community life. Sometimes, when you get used to visiting only technical forums, you may not even notice other parts of the Community that may be very helpful for you.
"Opt-in/opt-out" is definitely a great option. And, I'm already working on moving our communication from private messages to a different place. It will be much more flexible, and you will have an option to unsubscribe from the news if you wish. I plan to implement it this year.
At the moment, there are two options: unsubscribe from all private message notifications (you may miss some messages in this case :( ) or simply ignore me :)
