A Privacy Concern

[killakev]

stop hiring children & this wont be a problem

[Star*]

Lol, funny.

So you want the PRs to NOT do their job at all?
Maybe you got reported for one of the few categories, who knows?

We do more than just checking PM history, things that has never been accessed before (well, that's for some). So if you're gonna restrict the team from doing anything and ONLY allow one man because he has 'maturity' for his age is downright disappointing.

[KonSavage]

PR's jobs require the ability to read PM's, enter houses, warp players and such. They are not only there for fun, but to keep the players in check and to keep the community somewhat intact. Snk is the manager and basically the only active scripter right now so if you think he's got the time to check everybody's messages to watch for vulgarity, racism, sexual harassment, etc, you're insane. Yes, our "private" messages aren't so private but it helps catch the bad players. If there is truly a PR reading private messages to players you should submit a ticket about it with proper evidence.

I agree. It should stay this way no different.

[Greeze]

Lol, funny.

So you want the PRs to NOT do their job at all?
Maybe you got reported for one of the few categories, who knows?

We do more than just checking PM history, things that has never been accessed before (well, that's for some). So if you're gonna restrict the team from doing anything and ONLY allow one man because he has 'maturity' for his age is downright disappointing.

Exactly. just don't online date.

[Jou43]

Abuse of power?

[MikeyUK]

I'm going to say this right here and now, the reason PRs are able to check our Private/Gang Messages is so that reports that are sent to them have valid evidence, like Gang Chat logs.

If you don't have anything to hide, you won't mind. Like, I don't mind every PR checking my Chat Logs and all that. I have nothing to hide, and I've never felt that this privacy concern has ever been a problem to me.

[CHAMPGRAAL]

Well I don't know if it is similar here but on another iOS server I was staff on the only way you could acess someones PMs was if it was for evidence if they are breaking one of the rules.

[RenoDorvay]

Believe me when I say that we absolutely respect everyone's privacy. We only monitor player PM's if there is a reason, usually when following up on a report.
If you feel that a staff member is treating you unfairly in this regard please reach out to SPR/PRA's and we will investigate it.

[ItzTerry!]

I'm sure most of us here should be aware that admins are able to read our PM history or warp to us anywhere.

So I had a small talk with this girl a few days ago, just a casual convo starting from me saying "hi". Today , she PMed out of nowhere saying that she can't be my gf anymore and she asked why I cheated on her. Hold on for a second, I wasn't even aware that I became her boyfriend??? She mentioned that I shouldn't have PMed her if I was interested in another girl. I was like wtf? How did that chat made us an item? I was quite reluctant at first and thought that she might be trolling.

Out of curiosity, I asked her how'd she knew about it and she told me her friends spreaded it. Now here's the interesting part, she said that an admin helped them checked my PM history. I thought that only snk were allowed to sneak at our PMs until I was caught by Bri yesterday during TTS for cursing on gang chat. That's when I realised that normal PRs are also able to do it.

Just like how netizens hate it when the government checks on them by tapping their phones and messages, I think that we Graalians would also want some privacy from admins. I'm not mad because the girl "broke up" with me or my "reputation" is tarnished among the chicks, rather it's because there's a possibility of privacy invasion going on.

Every problem has a solution, and I'm going to suggest some.

1. The ability to check PM history may not be possible to remove, but I'm sure we can remove it from PRs and only allow snk to look at our PMs.

If that power can't be removed, then here's the other solution.

2. Make our house private. There's 2 different issues in this.

a) Admins should not be allowed to warp to others' houses. Likewise, only snk should be able to. I'm confident that he's able to handle that power with maturity since he's old enough. (Enough of "Age doesn't define maturity". We gotta admit that the so called "mature and young" admins are actually not mature and they're just good at having a split personality.

b) Add an option for us to be able to invite our someone to our house, yet disallowing anyone else to enter randomly, so we can have some private conversations. There's 3 options currently. If we check "Open to public" or "Open to friends", we are allowed to invite players but at the same time, other players are also able to enter without an invitation. This has happened so many times especially when I don't want the two players to know. However, if we check "kick visitors" it won't let us invite anyone.

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Of course, even if the girl was making a blatant lie that admins can check PMs, I still want solution #2 to be implemented. In case you admins would like to do some investigations, the gang she's mainly in is "iLoverz". It's full of socialising weirdos in there. I've talked to loads of Arabs and somehow they are related to iLoverz.

As most people have said, admins can only see a pm of those who are reported.

Unless my theory was right and the PPA's exist!

[stan]

Well, then vulgarities should be allowed in the game. It's parents fault for not monitoring their 9 year old kids playing a 12+ rated game. Apple has introduced the "restriction" for situations like this. Parents should take the responsibility to enable and configure the suitable restrictions when allowing their children on the iDevices.