... is to send a PM to an admin.

Folks - if you need to bring a thread to our attention, every single post has an icon that looks like an exclamation mark in a triangle.

CLICK THAT, please. Fill out a thread report.

When you do that, it sends an email to every moderator on the site (me included). It gives us links DIRECTLY to the post in question, so we can find it easily, and it means we don't have to stumble around blind trying to figure out what the heck the problem is. It also creates a group thread for us mods/admins in our staff area so we can decide upon a course of action.

By contrast, when you send a PM (worse if you only send it to one of us) then odds are you're not giving us enough information and quite probably won't even get noticed if that person (or people) don't happen to be online that minue.

So please - PMs are not the right way to report issues - use the forum tools you have.