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[1dozenraw]

Originally Posted by JohnR

Sometimes there is a reasonable expectation of privacy. While I am reasonably sure I have been called an ahole in PMs I have not gone looting around in PMs to find out. It would be fairly easy for a site admin to do and nobody would be the wiser but that is not the environment I want to work in nor provide for others. Law enforcement starts knocking on the door, maybe the PMs get opened - depends on the scenario.

I have no way of being sure, but having watched how Tim and the Moderators operate, I'd be very surprised if Tim went through anyone's PMs unless there had been some issues between that member and the other Mods or other members or unless there had been some violation noticed. I really think he has better / other things to do than randomly kick back and read our PMs. There had to be a reason otherwise he wouldn't have wasted his time... just my take. Any more than you'd waste your time trying to track down a problem or check out a problematic member if you hadn't seen or gotten a report of a problem beforehand.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by 1dozenraw

I have no way of being sure, but having watched how Tim and the Moderators operate, I'd be very surprised if Tim went through anyone's PMs unless there had been some issues between that member and the other Mods or other members or unless there had been some violation noticed. I really think he has better / other things to do than randomly kick back and read our PMs. There had to be a reason otherwise he wouldn't have wasted his time... just my take. Any more than you'd waste your time trying to track down a problem or check out a problematic member if you hadn't seen or gotten a report of a problem beforehand.

I can tell you unequivocally that as an administrator there, I have never looked at any member's PMs. I don't even know whether I could, and I know that I wouldn't have begun to know where to look.

[ThrowingTimber]

Originally Posted by 1dozenraw

I have no way of being sure, but having watched how Tim and the Moderators operate, I'd be very surprised if Tim went through anyone's PMs unless there had been some issues between that member and the other Mods or other members or unless there had been some violation noticed. I really think he has better / other things to do than randomly kick back and read our PMs. There had to be a reason otherwise he wouldn't have wasted his time... just my take. Any more than you'd waste your time trying to track down a problem or check out a problematic member if you hadn't seen or gotten a report of a problem beforehand.

He's gone through my "Private messages" Kevin. Back when I was fishing 9 nights a week on rocks and sand from Maine to Napatree. He pm'd me asking me why I got so many pm's. I told him he was free to read them, theyre all from folks I was fishing with. I believe he was under the impression I was using my pm's to sell lures or whatever. Nope just a beach bum

[1dozenraw]

Originally Posted by ThrowingTimber

He's gone through my "Private messages" Kevin. Back when I was fishing 9 nights a week on rocks and sand from Maine to Napatree. He pm'd me asking me why I got so many pm's. I told him he was free to read them, theyre all from folks I was fishing with. I believe he was under the impression I was using my pm's to sell lures or whatever. Nope just a beach bum

OK.... never was aware of that. However, I don't think he does it just for entertainment or without some reason. Meanwhile, I'm like Paul... I play be the rules, and I've never had a problem with him or the site. And I'll have nothing more to add to this discussion. I like John. I like Tim. I like fishing and I like all the positive stuff I've gotten from both sites. It's a pretty good life I'd say. Finito. :-)