You troll in a confusing manner
[QUOTE=FutSniffA;2757439]Ok I'll make it simple for you.
1. Do you read PMs?
2. Are PMs actually private?
3. What is considered misusing the PM system?
I don't want to run afoul in the PM section.
If you can explain this to an uneducated douchebag like myself that would greatly appreciated King or God A2.
These are serious questions for my own education.
- Lowly common man.[/QUOTE]Couple things first, why did you rag on me for not answering a question you hadn't asked. How can I refuse to answer something before you ever asked it?
To answer; this issue has been addressed several times on the forum. In order to be helpful here it is again;.
1. As a rule no.
2. About 99.98928571428% yes.
3. Lots of stuff which takes us back to questions 1 and 2. We have around 20,000 PM's a day that go across the server. We have neither the time nor the interest to read them. As do nearly all operators of private messaging services like ours we utilize software on the server to scan PM's for different sorts of things, mostly the most egregious violations of the terms of service, threats, underage, trafficking, spam, promoting other web sites, shit like that. There's a list of phrases. Since it's not a human doing it, nobody is actually reading them. The server scans for particular variations of ones and zeros that signify those types of phrases. There is no comprehension of content. There are also behavioral triggers, X amount of posts per hour, X amount of posts per day, X amounts of posts from an account that has been dormant for X amount of time. It's all very standard stuff.
None of this is a secret, all of it is industry standard. While I realize that since you are looking for things to be righteously indignant about you will decry this as a gross violation of your privacy I'm betting that the majority of members would rather not have their inboxes choked up with spam about Viagra and hookers in India. I'm pretty sure that most of them would rather do without the messages from the local loonies that have issues with prostitution as a whole. We don't harvest data, we don't sell data, we do nothing with the data unless it is afoul of the terms of service then we delete it.
Earlier I said we get about 20,000 PM's a day across the server. I generally get alerts on 10-15 of them a week. So that means that of the 140,000 +- a week we end up looking at around 0. 010714285714285714% so yeah, PM's are pretty fucking private. Add to that the additional steps we have taken of locating the servers in a jurisdiction not under US control (to further protect our members privacy) and then I'd say Fucking A they are really fucking private.
Oh, and you specifically? You have never had a PM that tripped an alert, so you personally have nothing further to say on this issue because everything you have ever sent as a PM was private from beginning to end. Honestly, we really don't care about who you're trolling on the forum, or who has your panties in a wad this week. We just want you guys to post reviews and follow the terms of service while you do that.
Again, have a nice weekend.
A2.