{
  "id": 2891,
  "title": "Contacting Admins",
  "url": "/competitions/MerckActivity/discussion/2891",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2012-10-15T18:12:22.537Z",
  "votes": 1,
  "comment_count": 4,
  "views": 2815,
  "content": "<p>How does one privately contact competition admins? I have some questions I don't want to post publically on the forums. I am sorry if there is some obvious way to do it that I have missed, but I am not experienced with kaggle.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "15627",
      "postDate": "10/15/2012 18:12:22",
      "content": "<p>How does one privately contact competition admins? I have some questions I don't want to post publically on the forums. I am sorry if there is some obvious way to do it that I have missed, but I am not experienced with kaggle.</p>",
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      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "15634",
      "postDate": "10/15/2012 18:32:02",
      "content": "<p>All admins have accounts (you may find them, for example, from their posts). On account page there is barely visible (at least on my IE) button &quot;Contact user&quot;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>P.S.</p>\r\n<p>Even simpler, from their post click on &quot;Email user&quot;</p>",
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    {
      "id": "15636",
      "postDate": "10/15/2012 18:52:01",
      "content": "<p>I'd request that admins' potential answers be publicly posted. They can decline to answer, but sharing information with only certain competitors is disingenuous.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "15646",
      "postDate": "10/15/2012 20:50:45",
      "content": "<p>yes, that is why public forums exist? What is the need to contact admin on personal email id?</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "15654",
      "postDate": "10/15/2012 22:28:57",
      "content": "<p>Yes, we also prefer for communication to happen on the public forum so that everyone has the same information. We often direct emails that come through Support to the competition forum so that we can respond publicly to everyone.\r\n</p>",
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      "votes": null
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 15634,
      "author_name": "ccccat",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/15/2012 18:32:02",
      "content": "<p>All admins have accounts (you may find them, for example, from their posts). On account page there is barely visible (at least on my IE) button &quot;Contact user&quot;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>P.S.</p>\r\n<p>Even simpler, from their post click on &quot;Email user&quot;</p>",
      "votes": null,
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    },
    {
      "id": 15636,
      "author_name": "biasvariance",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/15/2012 18:52:01",
      "content": "<p>I'd request that admins' potential answers be publicly posted. They can decline to answer, but sharing information with only certain competitors is disingenuous.</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 15646,
      "author_name": "rkirana",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/15/2012 20:50:45",
      "content": "<p>yes, that is why public forums exist? What is the need to contact admin on personal email id?</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    },
    {
      "id": 15654,
      "author_name": "joycenv",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "10/15/2012 22:28:57",
      "content": "<p>Yes, we also prefer for communication to happen on the public forum so that everyone has the same information. We often direct emails that come through Support to the competition forum so that we can respond publicly to everyone.\r\n</p>",
      "votes": null,
      "replies": []
    }
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