What does PST mean?

I've seen on the internet, on several sources (here and here are just a couple of examples) that "PST" means "Please Send Tell". But the sentence "please send tell" doesn't make any sense to me.

What does it mean?

2 Answers

I'm not sure what the first game to do this was, but a "tell" is a private message sent to another player. I think it originates way back from text-based MUDs where to message someone you'd type something like tell <name> <message>.

These days many multiplayer games call those messages "whispers" instead, but often /tell will be aliased to it. For example, in World of Warcraft you can message someone either via /w for "whisper" or /t for "tell".

So, "please send tell" basically means "contact me privately to respond".

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Another meaning is "Pacific Standard Time," a time zone eight hours west of Greenwich, used by places like Los Angeles (movies, games,) San Francisco (start-ups, games) and Seattle (Microsoft, games.)

If you're talking about scheduling of events, then this is a much more likely meaning of the acronym.