The forum kind of had PM/DMs. It wasn't obvious, but when friending someone, it allowed you to attach a note, which acted as a PM. You could only do one per person though. Was enough to give them a private email to continue the discussion. It was one of the features removed when Cox moved to this junk Khoros platform. It also added the need to click "show more" whenever a thread gets over a number of posts. Can't customize your profile or use custom icons either. Bunch of other bugs too, like issues with the censor bot blocking words which aren't curse, not blocking words that are, and even blocking certain script in hyperlinks. It seems Khoros isn't just forum platform, but an entire system to incorporate posts from Facebook/Twitter/this forum/email into one UI that they can interact with. See here. Looks like they have queues, so that might explain why people report sending moderators email but not getting a response or it is taking days. If no one is assigned to the email queue, none of the emails get answered. Last, it might explain why moderators have been making the period/coma typo when posting links.