I mean… I come from the forum scene and they were always called PMs, as in Private Message. What in the hell does DM stand for and when did things change from people calling them PMs to DMs.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    I agree partly with you but…

    If the wiretapper releases that conversation and it appears on every TV in the World then it is public and the first thing you are going to say is “but that was a private conversation in a private room and was not meant to be public”. There is expectation of privacy. There is none in a DM. It is a direct message/contact between you, other person and potentially 99999 auditors, and the rest of the world. This is by design, not an exceptional situation.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      11 year ago

      Yeah, perhaps you’re right… maybe we should just drop the whole PM thing, cuz it makes less sense that calling them DMs.