Can moderators read members' Personal Messages?

[Cristina]

Just curious. 

[Tim_]

Hi Christina
We cannot read PM's unless they are sent to us.

Tim

[Cristina]

Thanks Tim. 

[Tangles (Donna)]

yeah ok and the pope is a catholic

 

[Tim_]

yeah ok and the pope is a catholic

 

I don't know why you should not believe me Donna.
Personal messages are private.
As Moderators we only see a private message if someone copies and pastes it and sends it to us in a message, something usually done only in the case of a complaint.
There is no log of the private messages that we can view as Moderators.


Tim

[Pieman]

"SMF strongly emphasizes individual privacy. For this reason, SMF does not provide an interface to allow anyone (including Administrators) to view other members’ Personal Messages.

This however does not mean it is impossible to do so, but SMF will not provide any kind of support for allowing the viewing of personal messages of others."

 

[Michael]

Hi All

I can assure you we don't have access to PMs as Tim has already stated. If a member decides to "report" a message then then Admins get sent a copy but that's it.

Thanks
Michael

[wendykg]

I recently sent a PM to one member regarding another member's mis-use of a forum....only to have the content of my message reported by the member who was mis-using the forum. So how does that happen

[Tim_]

If you look at the bottom right of a message there is a report to admin link
or they may have copied and pasted it into a message to us.

Tim

[Michael]

The only way that this could happen is if it was sent to the member.. Only the recipient(s) of the message can see the message so it was either sent to them by mistake or it forwarded on by someone else..