Sorry if I am stupid but I don't find how to send a private message to a user. Isn't it possible ? I took a look at the user's profile as well as the faq.
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5$\begingroup$ Nope, not possible. The SE team seem to have strongly resisted this idea, though I think it could be useful at times. $\endgroup$– cardinalJun 22, 2012 at 13:04
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2$\begingroup$ If you let the person know you're trying to contact them via a judiciously placed comment (which you can later delete), you might get an email address from them. That's a hack (to be used sparingly), of course. :-) $\endgroup$– cardinalJun 22, 2012 at 13:05
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$\begingroup$ Ok, thank you. I think it could be useful too. $\endgroup$– Stéphane LaurentJun 22, 2012 at 13:15
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5$\begingroup$ @cardinal Your moderators do not appreciate that hack, because we have to detect its occurrences and clean them up. Please use alternative mechanisms. $\endgroup$– whuber ModJun 22, 2012 at 13:40
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1$\begingroup$ @whuber: (+1) I almost did not suggest it and felt a considerable degree of resistance to the idea myself. I intended it as a last-ditch sort of idea and also didn't fully realize it would generate more work on your parts (which I would like to find ways to further minimize anyway). Apologies. :) $\endgroup$– cardinalJun 22, 2012 at 13:51
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$\begingroup$ (Please feel free to delete the offending comment, too, @whuber, if you feel it is best that it not remain publicly visible.) $\endgroup$– cardinalJun 22, 2012 at 13:56
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1$\begingroup$ In my case I wanted to point out one of my questions to a user because I think he possibly has a good advice about this question and I'm not sure he daily check new questions on stats.stackexchange. Hence I have followed @cardinal's suggestion with the help of a comment to a related question to which he replied: stats.stackexchange.com/questions/26556/… $\endgroup$– Stéphane LaurentJun 22, 2012 at 13:59
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2$\begingroup$ Stephane, I think that usage is fine, fairly commonly used already and potentially beneficial to the site as a whole since it presumably links related questions and content. $\endgroup$– cardinalJun 22, 2012 at 14:02
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$\begingroup$ Yes, but I have noted that I do not always receive notifications to new comments on the questions where I have participated, hence I'm not sure he will receive a notification. Maybe this absence of notification is another question for meta.stats.stackexchange... $\endgroup$– Stéphane LaurentJun 22, 2012 at 14:09
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1$\begingroup$ Since Aaron is the author of the answer, he will receive notification. The times you wouldn't receive notification as a comment participant is if (a) you are not the editor or author of the immediate post, (b) there is more than one non-author participant already and (c) the @-notification was not used to address you. $\endgroup$– cardinalJun 22, 2012 at 14:13
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$\begingroup$ aaaahhhhhh now I understand the utility of @ ! Thanks ! $\endgroup$– Stéphane LaurentJun 22, 2012 at 14:25
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1$\begingroup$ As an example, note that, somewhat ironically, I did not receive notification of your most recent comment since whuber is another participant in this stream (but you will receive notification of this one!). ;-) A little complicated, isn't it! Cheers. $\endgroup$– cardinalJun 22, 2012 at 14:34
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1$\begingroup$ Possible duplicate of How to contact other user? $\endgroup$– amoebaJun 17, 2016 at 14:29
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SE creates Q&A threads that are focused, undergo constant improvement, display evaluation by a qualified community, and permanently exist as references and search targets. Ephemeral exchanges, highly localized discussions, and (undocumented, unwitnessed) offline dialog work against that effort and are therefore actively discouraged and--when they do occur--are quickly removed by the community. Therefore efforts to engage in offline contact within the Q&A threads (including comments) are not supported and not appreciated when they do occur.
Nevertheless it's easy to contact people you meet here: check out their user profile. If they want to be reached, they will include enough information to let you do that. Another option is to use the chat facility.
