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Staff will only look at your PM history if you are reported for something (i.e. sexual messages over PM). Other than that, unless a staff has a legitimate reason for checking PMs, they won't be doing it. If I, for example, wanted to look at Thallen's PM history because I was bored and curious, I'm pretty sure that would be considered abuse to some degree.
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I think the issue people have is that their aren't many checks for this power. I'm not saying it's abused by adminisators, don't take this the wrong way, but you could easily view Thallen's message history, and no one would be the wiser(I saw what yog said above, I'll address it). That's the abuse of power people are worried about.
In response to Yog's post. I think that while that helps, if you all are certain that no adminisator would abuse their power, then that adds to the problem. If you aren't suspicious of other GP's, then who can check to make sure they're doing their job justly and honestly?
That brings us to a couple questions that might help the situation a bit.
- Do administrators actions get reviewed by anyone?
- If someone isn't reported, is it possible to check their pm history? As in if someone was trying to abuse it, could they?
- is there some sort of protocol for checking pm history, like do you have to cite a reason or report for checking it, or does it just appear in said log as "(adminisators name) checked player1's pm history"?
I understand that you need to trust an adminisator when you hire them, but absolute trust can be a dangerous thing. I'm not accusing anyone of anything, either. I understand most GP's won't abuse the power, im more wondering how possible it is for them to do so.