Do we have to change the way we say hello in private messages?

You’re right.
We figured that out a while ago with “I love you”. Tim told us to just get creative.
I like that it’s like that, though.
Repeat comments are boring.

Ah well.

It kinda gets in the way of telling knock knock jokes, though.

@bob_ Get creative.

@chyna Are you saying I’m not creative?

Well, um… go make me a sandwich!

Heavy on the mayo? haha

And easy on the lettuce.

It’s definitely a bug. We put in code to prevent people from writing the same answer twice (usually done accidentally), but it carried over into messages I think. I take it you’d prefer if we fixed it?

I do, yes XD

We’ll fix it.

Danke schön!

This should be fixed now, let me know if it’s not working.

Sometimes I’m unsure about the first name. Bob is obvious. Tim is obvious. If user names are really strange it feels a bit awkward to start a PM with

Hi strangename,

…

@mattbrowne You know, Bob’s not really my first name. That is me in my avatar, though. Yep, that’s the ticket.

@bob_ – What I meant is that I feel fine sending you a PM starting with “Hi Bob…” but I feel awkward starting with “Hi Strangeavatarname…” In this case, I prefer “Hi there…”

@mattbrowne Ah. Verstanden. I prefer “hey yo”.

Alles klar auf der Andrea Doria ;-)