Thread:Neo34/@comment-29291030-20160914160940/@comment-32738051-20160914172211

Hi Mare!

I hope you and Neo don't mind but I have done some playing around with privacy here on the Wiki and I have some ideas for you. There's some basic notes about privacy on my profile page at the bottom of the About Me section. The best options for privacy are offline, via dedicating a personal email address for communicating with Wiki friends (as you will notice I have done at the above link and also in my Wiki signature below), or online via private chat. If you want to create your own Wiki signature with your email link included, see the Help:Preferences page for more details or you can copy my format below. If you want to private chat, see the Help:Chat page for more details. It's limited to 2 people and both you and the person with whom you wish to chat will have to be online and joined in the general chat before you can initiate private chat. Chat messages are not saved by the system.

There is 1 other way I know of you can "private" message, either through posting on a user's wall (can still be seen in the Wiki activity) or by messaging through yours and the other person's profile pages (Wiki activity only shows when a user updates their profile, not what the updated content is), and that is by changing the font color of your message to white (see Help:Wikitext/CSS and Help:Color for more info). However, another user can see what you wrote simply by selecting what is in the white space (kind of like a Wiki version of invisible ink), if they know where to select, or by scanning through the page or post History, though that could be time consuming depending on how deeply the changes are buried and how long since you removed the hidden text (if you removed it; removing isn't the same as deleting and only admins can delete).

Here's a sample of hidden text:

Hi Mare! What do you think of my hidden text?

Hope this helps.

- My Wiki profile; My message wall; or click [mailto:merrimacga@yahoo.com here] to contact me privately.