How Private are Private messages?

hahahatschi wrote:

An update.
Today it's three people who have the Admin rigths.
In practise it's mostly done by me, so one person is checking your PMs.
Believe me, every PM is checked.
It doesn't take that much time to check PMs as it's not so much actual reading and besides, most PMs are oneliners.
On average there are 150 PMs in 24 hours.
30 sec on each to glance and decide if there should be a more thorough check, makes 1 hour 15 minutes for checking.
On average 10 of those 150 will require some kind of further action.
That time varies but most of the PMs sent out are standard text where just the involved users or sites are changed.
Say about 1 hour for that.
Thats how much time it takes/day.
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Sugarman wrote:

Totally agree!!! Rules are rules!

svinto wrote:

That's more than 2 hours just to check PM's. I don't think anyone realizes how much work svinto puts into protecting this board and it's members.

Sugarman wrote:
I think all moderators must spend a lot of time looking after a board this size. My thanks to you all for your hard work. It is greatly appreciated by most of us.

A little strange conversation..
Off course there most be some eyes on threads, PM's an so on.
Or els i can't see what the people, who got something to hide, are
a member in here for..
Privacy in cyberspace..That'll be the day.
An if it all just was an "chaos" forum, it don't survive
many weeks..Belive me.I have seen it more than
u will belive.

We got this nice place with a very large way to do what
we want, if we don't turn of our own brain, when we
are in here...The freedom to talk/post has caugth me
by surprise several times, soo

Got kicked out off my dk forum (my own country) and
all my post was deleted..The reason..I was posting/reupped
something that was there already.. 3 times in 3 years an then
goodbey to me...That's a forum who don't survive and some
adm/mods who don't have a clou, what they are doing..

An the other way around..I'll never report any for anything,an i'm grown enough to tell people to fuck off, but it piss me off if i get PM's about
request for banned stuff...And if the persons don't get what i say, it's
nice that the mods/adm are somewhere behind.
Also for our own security...
Had that problem for 6 month's ago..That suddently stopped, without
i did anything but get pissed over some people, who didn't understand
a NO..

BTW..just talked with some old friends from my scandinavian boards
and they are all leaving...becuse their isn't any kind of control...

(many off them are here and was here before me so they had
seen the Titanic back there)..

But again..it's just my humble mening..

*just a note*

i don't know what version of phpBB this board is using, but it is not that simple to check all pm's. at least at the board i was admin. you have to download a back up of the forum and open that with a text editor or something windows and carefully scroll through endless text.

of coarse this version might be different.

...........jrollin