Customizing SMF > SMF Coding Discussion
New Mod Idea!
LostProphecy:
Greetings!
I got a really good idea one night while going through the contents of my MySql database.
What does everyone think of a "Read members private messages mod?"
The admins at my site do this by digging through the ever complicated SQL database! It's a pain in the butt really...and a mod specifically designed for this purpose would make things a lot simpler...
So what does everyone think?
Kodee.
Ben_S:
That it's wrong and unethical and it's been discussed before.
Peter Duggan:
--- Quote from: LostProphecy on April 29, 2004, 06:47:37 PM ---private
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LostProphecy:
Well see I believe in privacy too. But we have had hack attempts before...and a lot of the members that did it used the private message system. Sorry, I had no clue it was already discussed.
Kreacher.
jack:
--- Quote from: Ben_S on April 29, 2004, 06:50:08 PM ---That it's wrong and unethical and it's been discussed before.
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Not 100% so. The Ts & Cs of my board state that there should be no expectation of privacy. Our rules also allow us to ceck a user's IM box for reasons such as claims of harrasment* or if we think that things may be being discussed that may cause problems for the site (i.e. illegal stuff) and of course there's exceptions for the UKs anti-terrorism laws.
I whole-heartedly agree that it should not be given a front-end as that would tempt people to 'fish' through other people's non-public messages. The complexity of looking now is deterrent to do so fpor trivial reasons.
* I have done so once.I got a complaint from a couple of people about a user annoying them. Upon checking, he'd basically been working his way through the userlist bugging anyone marked as female. A swift banning ensued.
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