Use the Private Message to the author; rather than the Reply to the thread

[Moonraker]

Often a comment to a poster is entered via REPLY and it just cascades.


Please use the Private Message option to contact the author about matters between you two.

[Sycamore]

Bossy.

[hubba1]

Don't forget, some users have the pm box disabled, so you may not get the message to them when you try...