Deleted Private Messages

If you ask me, this is worse than posting someone's PM on the forum.

 

I could fill your PM box up with all my love.

 

This isn't funny Jonty.

I seriously had some very important PM's in there concerning the RPG's. They were recent and I hadn't been able to save them yet.

 

Betsy? Yeah... that's pretty bad if a mod/admin went in and deleted your PM's.

 

It had been said that once a PM is sent and in your box you're allowed to do with it as you please (except post it verbatim in the forums). So, I dunno why that's suddenly a no-no.

 

I'd be pissed as well, but I'm being perfectly sincere.

Leave me to my whooings.

Twy, can I woo you?

 

I so hope it was Morg.

Also, if a mod did this, it raises the issue that mods are probably reading our PRIVATE messages.

 

You should probably delete your musings on child porn, just in case.

 

No. Way.

 

Morg doesn't have that power. Only admins do.

"It had been said that once a PM is sent and in your box you're allowed to do with it as you please (except post it verbatim in the forums). So, I dunno why that's suddenly a no-no."

I'm the one who said that, so I could be over-ruled by the Administration. It just seems to me, though, if the rule is that Private Messages are to be that strictly confidential then they ought to remove the "Forward" option.

 

We do not have that ability.

 

Admins also shouldn't be allowed to read them then.

 

We should write another letter, Twy.

 

Uh, before we start assigning alterior motives to the Administration (or anyone else) I think it would be wise to wait until an technical investigation is made on your account Twy.

I say this because it could very well be a system glitch--we all know the site suffers from it from time to time. For example, a couple of weeks ago I couldn't load any of my avatars here. And my PM box at Xverse (another Vbulletin site) says I have 2 unread messages, but it's false. So let's take the mature route, turn your case into the admins so they can check it out, and be patient.

 

I was serious.

 

That's the most likely and unfortunate explanation.

 

I know, but it's no fun.

 

I thought it was you and pretty recent, but din't wanna call ya out. But still, you're right, it's pretty much common sense. Once sent they're your private messages, right. Why can't you make em private to someone else? It's not putting them out publically as posting would be. But yeah, I guess you're also right that it's Mirko's rules. don't want your PMs deleted? Go somewhere else.

 

That's okay, but thanks for the consideration.

What I said was that before the annoucement here at the Hype! that the 'private' in private messages was meant to mean a degree of confidentiality (i.e. no posting in public), I interpreted the 'private' in 'private messages' to mean that it allowed you maintain your privacy (i.e. you didn't have to give out your personal e-mail address to communicate personally with someone on the boards). I had always considered private messages like e-mail, that once the other person had them, the messages were pretty much theirs to do with as they please - which could include anything from forwarding it to a friend to hosting the message on a website (and everything in between), so you shouldn't put anything in a PM that you don't want made public unless you REALLY trust the person not to do so.

I never extrapolated the Hype! rule that you couldn't post PMs to mean that PMs were strict confidential documents, the content of which could be shared with no one. Heck, I've forwarded PMs to others myself.

 

I certainly didn't delete them.