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Originally Posted by Tigairius

I personally believe all PMs should be logged, not only mass messages. I know this is a major invasion of privacy, which is something I don't generally advocate, but in this special case. If not local staff, then tenured global staff should be able to view the history between people in order to help solve disputes of claimed harassment.

Absolutely not.

Solve complaints about stolen passwords being spread around, we could search for the account name being discussed in PMs and find the person(s) sending out the password.

Find discussion of anti-graal (spreading out links to trainers, people admitting to the use of such, etc).

This is a silly reason, I can't see this being used hardly at all. Why not just change the password? I wouldn't be so much opposed if you could search through PMs and see a list of accounts who have said the phrase, as long as you can't see full-text messages. Obviously, the full text would have to be stored somewhere, but it should only be accessible Stefan.

Handle cases of mass messages containing inappropriate things (pornography, passwords, illegal discussions), and have solid proof to back it up.

Mass message logging is great.

Find additional information on account scams, item scams, and allow us to make the communities a safer place with proper proof.

It's not worth the loss of privacy.

Solve problems with extreme cases of harassment.

I agree with others, if they are really being harassed, I think it'd be possible for us to tell in at least some way. They can always use the ignore list, and if that fails, they can send in screenshots of PMs, etc. I wouldn't be opposed to a log saying when PMs where sent (and who the recipient was) so you could see if the players are actually talking. Also, as someone else said, a way to validate PMs would be great (e.g. some kind of hash).

It's just not worth the loss of privacy, and I know there would be cases of PWAs and other globals "snooping" on others.

Originally Posted by Frankie

so what you're saying is that GPs would be randomly reading through mass message logs to try and find things they deem inappropriate? I understand going through the logs when trying to resolve an issue, but going through them at your own leisure to find people to punish is just pathetic.

That's not what I said at all. If a player PMs us saying someone else has been massing about them, and we've received no masses, how are we supposed to check it?