can moderators read people's PMs? how far does their power extend? ive only been on two other forums, ever, and none of the moderators there couldnt do near as much as the ones here. i know they can change our profile info, and signatures, edit our posts and what not, but what about other things? can they change our avatars, delete our accounts, send PMs to others in our names? can they do these things, and mostly, are they keeping it secret to keep the edgeon the ordinary members???

This should be in the conspiracy section !

What difference would it make anyway? All the mods I know are honourable decent people. Go Mods!!!!

sure, theyre honerable, decent people, but would you want them reading your PMs? theyre called Personal Messages because........theyre personal! even!

I own a forum, as an admin, and as far as I know, I can't read anyones PM's unless I went onto their account...Mod powers are always lower than admin.

I can't read anyone's PMs on mine either, but one time I did create an alternative personality and they found out about it and I only told one person through PM. I used a different email address and that person swears he didn't tell, but they knew. How did they know? Hmmmm

Saucy, You can tell through looking at I.P addresses.

What if two people in a family used the same computerto chat on unexplained mysteries? Would they have their accounts suspended?

No, not unless your behavior justified it. It would be appreciated if members informed an administrator or moderator if they are sharing a computer prior to their posting to the forum, however. This helps allay any suspicion of deceitful activity and prevents misunderstandings.

PM's are exactly that, 'private messages'.

Saucy, even without access to IP lookup tools, your foolish attempt at deception would have been noticed, you're that obvious.

Thank-you for your openess on the subject MiM . If any body else has similar questions it would be apreciated if they where also asked .

And as Magik said PM's are private messages . We can't see them .

Infact it would be fair to say that the friendly environment experienced by most on the forum should be viewed as a reflection of the work put in by the moderators . They do it for the sake of a good forum and for no other reason .

Why ruin that by creating mistrust ?

Now if this eesm to have answered both MiM's and saucy's questions then I'll close it..

Pm a mod if you have anymore questions...