Uh... hi

[Daedalus]

Hello and welcome to the community BZ, been a long time. I was a member of ZBC under another username among many other forums.

 

[Cloaked]

Welcome. Nice to meet you.

 

[Wise Owl]

Welcome aboard. Glad to have you here. It's nice to have skills in maintining forums. But I am only good with Forumotion forums.

 

[Bluezone777]

I haven't been the owner of anything in a long time nor have I worked on a forum in a long time. I think the last time I was staff somewhere was Forum Promotion till I got myself fired from there which was a while ago now. I will tell that story if anyone is interested.

ZBC eh? that's a name I haven't heard of in ages. It stands for Zetaboards Community for those who don't know which ironically was an Invisionfree forum of the general chat variety. lol

 

[Cedric]

I haven't been the owner of anything in a long time nor have I worked on a forum in a long time. I think the last time I was staff somewhere was Forum Promotion till I got myself fired from there which was a while ago now. I will tell that story if anyone is interested.

ZBC eh? that's a name I haven't heard of in ages. It stands for Zetaboards Community for those who don't know which ironically was an Invisionfree forum of the general chat variety. lol

We did some crazy things back then that often made no sense at all.

 

[Cory]

I will tell that story if anyone is interested.

Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[Bluezone777]

This took place around seven years ago. Well long story short, a long ago banned member(we are talking years ago) wanted to come back to make amends for what he did way back then. He approached me with this on FP and I didn't say anything because I believe pms are meant to be private and I also genuinely believed he was telling the truth. Soon after, an admin approached me with this and fired me for it. I got the impression I wasn't wanted anymore and were looking for a reason to justify getting rid of me and I honestly didn't want to be working there anymore either but I just can't bring myself to quit staff position well at least not easily so this gave me a way out that I could take. I only took the job in the first place because two nice people in my estimation who were running the review team at the time were begging me to take it as they were in a rough spot and couldn't find anyone to take the job.

Things might be better now over there as no one on staff back then is staff anymore today with the exception of the owner.

 

[Cory]

Soon after, an admin approached me with this and fired me for it.

I assume they could read private messages sent between users?

 

[Bluezone777]

That was my guess. I don't consider PMs on self hosted forums private anymore because of it. It doesn't matter what forum or who is admin of it. No one can promise that every single person who will ever be admin won't use/abuse the ability because you don't know who every admin of your forum is going to be nor what kind of person they are and that includes people who have not yet promoted but might one day get the job in the future.

 

[Cory]

I don't consider PMs on self hosted forums private anymore because of it.

PMs can be read on the non-self-hosted software, Jcink. However, there is a privacy warning that PMs could be logged or monitored even when disabled.