Continuing the discussion from Introduce yourself!:
I’ve seen several of you trying to have direct conversations between 2 people on the forum. A better way to do that is using private messages. Just click on someone’s icon or name on the page, and the popup will have a button to message them:
Sent them a message just like email, and no one else will see it. This is good for messages like this:
Sorry to use you as an example @sudent, not trying to single you out 
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