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Honestly, I would be down on private messaging. I don't mind the shout-out in the chat room, and someone has used that with me once, but...

I'll count the ways.

1. I was on the Internet back in the days when having a female username was considered license to send skeevy private messages, and/or "You're not really a woman! You're a fat middle-aged man in his underwear!" I like to think that Server Fault attacts a higher quality of user, but the aversion stands.
2. I've already been badgered by a user once in the nine months I've been here. I'd prefer that stack exchange not implement new ways for people to badger me. (Deleted TL;DR example, heh.)

As to the chat shout-outs, well. If you're willing to go into the Comms room and say it in front of a whole bunch of other users and the mods, it's probably okay. (Or, if it's not, everyone's seen you be skeevy/badger me, so there you are.)

Honestly, I would be down on private messaging. I don't mind the shout-out in the chat room, and someone has used that with me once, but...

I'll count the ways.

1. I was on the Internet back in the days when having a female username was considered license to send skeevy private messages, and/or "You're not really a woman! You're a fat middle-aged man in his underwear!" I like to think that Server Fault attacts a higher quality of user, but the aversion stands.
2. I've already been badgered by a user once in the nine months I've been here. I'd prefer that stack exchange not implement new ways for people to badger me.

As to the chat shout-outs, well. If you're willing to go into the Comms room and say it in front of a whole bunch of other users and the mods, it's probably okay. (Or, if it's not, everyone's seen you be skeevy/badger me, so there you are.)

Honestly, I would down on private messaging. I don't mind the shout-out in the chat room, and someone has used that with me once, but...

I'll count the ways.

1. I was on the Internet back in the days when having a female username was considered license to send skeevy private messages, and/or "You're not really a woman! You're a fat middle-aged man in his underwear!" I like to think that Server Fault attacts a higher quality of user, but the aversion stands.
2. I've already been badgered by a user once in the nine months I've been here. I'd prefer that stack exchange not implement new ways for people to badger me. (He told me to "come back and type the answer to [his] question," so I decided I was finished with him. He came back daily to leave comments on my answer for almost a week: "Are you available now?" "Please come back and answer my question." "You still haven't answered my question. [restates question]" "This question refers to the company president's email and needs to be handled ASAP." Newsflash: He's not my company president and I don't care if his email is messed up. Go pay someone.)

As to the chat shout-outs, well. If you're willing to go into the Comms room and say it in front of a whole bunch of other users and the mods, it's probably okay. (Or, if it's not, everyone's seen you be skeevy/badger me, so there you are.)

Honestly, I would be down on private messaging. I don't mind the shout-out in the chat room, and someone has used that with me once, but...

I'll count the ways.

1. I was on the Internet back in the days when having a female username was considered license to send skeevy private messages, and/or "You're not really a woman! You're a fat middle-aged man in his underwear!" I like to think that Server Fault attacts a higher quality of user, but the aversion stands.
2. I've already been badgered by a user once in the nine months I've been here. I'd prefer that stack exchange not implement new ways for people to badger me. (Deleted TL;DR example, heh.)

As to the chat shout-outs, well. If you're willing to go into the Comms room and say it in front of a whole bunch of other users and the mods, it's probably okay. (Or, if it's not, everyone's seen you be skeevy/badger me, so there you are.)

Honestly, I would down on private messaging. I don't mind the shout-out in the chat room, and someone has used that with me once, but...

I'll count the ways.

1. I was on the Internet back in the days when having a female username was considered license to send skeevy private messages, and/or "You're not really a woman! You're a fat middle-aged man in his underwear!" I like to think that Server Fault attacts a higher quality of user, but the aversion stands.
2. I've already been badgered by a user once in the nine months I've been here. I'd prefer that stack exchange not implement new ways for people to badger me. (He told me to "come back and type the answer to [his] question," so I decided I was finished with him. He came back daily to leave comments on my answer for almost a week: "Are you available now?" "Please come back and answer my question." "You still haven't answered my question. [restates question]" "This question refers to the company president's email and needs to be handled ASAP." Newsflash: He ain't my company president and I don't care if his email is messed up. Go pay someone.)

As to the chat shout-outs, well. If you're willing to go into the Comms room and say it in front of a whole bunch of other users and the mods, it's probably okay. (Or, if it's not, everyone's seen you be skeevy/badger me, so there you are.)

Honestly, I would down on private messaging. I don't mind the shout-out in the chat room, and someone has used that with me once, but...

I'll count the ways.

1. I was on the Internet back in the days when having a female username was considered license to send skeevy private messages, and/or "You're not really a woman! You're a fat middle-aged man in his underwear!" I like to think that Server Fault attacts a higher quality of user, but the aversion stands.
2. I've already been badgered by a user once in the nine months I've been here. I'd prefer that stack exchange not implement new ways for people to badger me. (He told me to "come back and type the answer to [his] question," so I decided I was finished with him. He came back daily to leave comments on my answer for almost a week: "Are you available now?" "Please come back and answer my question." "You still haven't answered my question. [restates question]" "This question refers to the company president's email and needs to be handled ASAP." Newsflash: He's not my company president and I don't care if his email is messed up. Go pay someone.)

As to the chat shout-outs, well. If you're willing to go into the Comms room and say it in front of a whole bunch of other users and the mods, it's probably okay. (Or, if it's not, everyone's seen you be skeevy/badger me, so there you are.)