Only thing that worked for me was to have them send me a message and reply to it on the message board. (While the GUI for creating messages is broken/hidden the GUUI for Replying is untouched)
Once again I fell down the martial arts rabbit hole and am plumbing the murky depths of the internet's various martial arts and fighting crafts echo chambers.
If you're not actively involved and only get up to speed every few years or so, you can see the tide of public opinion flapping worse than my dong while I'm skipping naked down a hallway.