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You want answers? I'll prep a thread when I get home from work about what moderator accounts can and can't do. The false accusations, while often funny, have gotten a bit out of hand at this point and have become insulting. I'll be happy to clarify the roles/responsibilities/tools of our staff in a proper setting. There is nothing to hide. Folks want transparency? No problem.
At which point does this start becoming stupid and offensive? I think it's at the point where we stand accused of checking Private Messages, which would be a terrible invasion of privacy if we even had that capability.
Is it technologically possible to read the text sent over ATS's service? Yeah, most likely it is. Does anyone do that? I highly doubt that the staff like William Simon or Bob88 do this simply because they have other # to do. If one day something was going on, and someone in a chat was acting in a way that threatened other members... would it be appropriate to monitor that person's private messages for the safety of other members? I'd say so.
Members are provided with a private messaging system as part of their account privileges. Every reasonable effort is made to ensure the private messaging system is maintained in a secure fashion so as to ensure the privacy of any and all messages sent between members. Staff and/or owners will not observe the content or flow of any private messaging unless explicit reports of violations of the Terms and Conditions of Use or the Terms and Conditions of Membership are received. The private messages may be subject to run-time content filtering (such as vulgarities) that is used to filter the content of thread posts.
NO WE CAN NOT READ YOUR PMs.
Members are provided with a private messaging system as part of their account privileges. Every reasonable effort is made to ensure the private messaging system is maintained in a secure fashion so as to ensure the privacy of any and all messages sent between members. Staff and/or owners will not observe the content or flow of any private messaging unless explicit reports of violations of the Terms and Conditions of Use or the Terms and Conditions of Membership are received. The private messages may be subject to run-time content filtering (such as vulgarities) that is used to filter the content of thread posts.
NO WE CAN NOT READ YOUR PMs.
Might want to look a little harder.
Read. Learn.
originally posted by: DISRAELI
a reply to: TheBoogieMan
Do you have access to RATS?
The thread promised came here;
What can Mods do?
P.S. The specific answer on the "stars" question seems to be that Mods can give two stars.
The OP remembered being told they can give six. Perhaps he was misremembering the suggestion that six Mods had given him two each.