tikana
Well-known member
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Private Messages and access by forum administration
Private messages (PM) serve the purpose of private communication between forum members, invisible to the public forum. This medium allows the exchange of confidential information, discussion of details or uttering opinions which one would not utter in public.
The forum administration and moderators respect the private character of this means of communication. They do not usually read PM other than their own. There are, however, situations in which (global) moderators access PM of a member. This happens, for example, when they are informed about insults or harassment in PM. There have also been cases of people launching advertising campaigns via PMs. And unfortunately, there have been incidents of organised distribution of rumours and campaigns against individual forum members or moderators.
When forum administration or moderators find out about such situations, they can access the private messages of this particular sender in order to verify the facts of the case before possibly intervening. This is also part of the duties of the website and forum operators."
there you have it ... they read ppl's PMs
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Private Messages and access by forum administration
Private messages (PM) serve the purpose of private communication between forum members, invisible to the public forum. This medium allows the exchange of confidential information, discussion of details or uttering opinions which one would not utter in public.
The forum administration and moderators respect the private character of this means of communication. They do not usually read PM other than their own. There are, however, situations in which (global) moderators access PM of a member. This happens, for example, when they are informed about insults or harassment in PM. There have also been cases of people launching advertising campaigns via PMs. And unfortunately, there have been incidents of organised distribution of rumours and campaigns against individual forum members or moderators.
When forum administration or moderators find out about such situations, they can access the private messages of this particular sender in order to verify the facts of the case before possibly intervening. This is also part of the duties of the website and forum operators."
there you have it ... they read ppl's PMs