What's the point?

[James Deuce]

Of the tags if they just get deleted or changed by some goody two shoes?

[Mom]

Want me to bring you a coffee mate?

Tags are the new toys, fun to play with for a little while, quickly will become boring

[sels1]

wots a tag?

[GSVR]

Of the tags if they just get deleted or changed by some goody two shoes?

Whats the point of Private Messages if the moderators can read them?

[Jantar]

Whats the point of Private Messages if the moderators can read them?

What's the point of this post if the moderators cant read them?

[Joni]

Whats the point of Private Messages if the moderators can read them?

Paranoia setting in? I presume you know this for a fact eh?

Wish someone had told me this when I was a mod, then I could have read everyone’s pm’s…

Hey Jantar... read my pm's from yesterday, Im planning to take over the world mwaahahahaha!

[Virago]

Whats the point of Private Messages if the moderators can read them?

They can't. End of story.

[Trudes]

And why would they want to? Surely we can't be that interesting?!

[PrincessBandit]

So what is a tag, and how do you do them/what do you do with them/rah rah rah?

[Katman]

So what is a tag,

You're 'it'.

(No returns).

[merv]

And why would they want to? Surely we can't be that interesting?!

What, not even the steaming hot PM's between me and you ?

As for tags I still don't get what they are about, haven't had time, too busy worrying about my Bro'.

[McJim]

I was going to use tags to categorise threads with a common theme I was interested in that weren't neccessarily in the same forum. It gives them a common element that I can use. Southern rides is a good example. Every time I find out abourt a ride or a meeting down this end of the country I tag it Southern Rides so I can find 'em all quickly.......sorry.....isn't that the point of them?

[imdying]

Whats the point of Private Messages if the moderators can read them?

They can't, only the admins that have access to the raw database could do this, and even then, only if they went out of there way to look at them.

vBulletin itself provides no built in web page facility for moderators to look at users PMs. I've seen the senior moderators controls, and no plug in to allow them to look at them has been installed either.

Whilst yes it is feasible that the administrators could read your PMs, I think you'll find their lives are far more interesting than that.

[Joni]

They can't, only the admins that have access to the raw database could do this, and even then, only if they went out of there way to look at them.

vBulletin itself provides no built in web page facility for moderators to look at users PMs. I've seen the senior moderators controls, and no plug in to allow them to look at them has been installed either.

Whilst yes it is feasible that the administrators could read your PMs, I think you'll find their lives are far more interesting than that.

Ah Malcolm babe... why did you do this? It’s a conspiracy don’t you know... your logical explanation just clears the air, and we all know that is not what is wanted... they want to bitch and moan, don’t take that away from them!

[imdying]

Heh, just the techinical aspect that interests me Yes, it is feasible that someone with server access could go to the trouble of finding a message in the database to read, but no, even the senior mods can't do it. I have to wonder why one someone would be arrogant enough to be paranoid about something like that though... I mean shit, they think their PMs are that interesting?

It is worth noting that even things that are encypted when they're stored in a database, are not really that secure from the database administrators. Do consider that when putting 'private' things into an IT system of any type.