Latest update. Papag contacted me requesting to come back and talk Blazers. I'm good with papag if that matters.
Let him come back! But I think we should all vote what his name/avatar should be. Sent from my baller ass iPhone 5 FAMS!
I'd like to solicit opinions about PMs and privacy. This thread started with one poster posting a PM he received from another. Current site policy, though maybe not written anywhere, is that you are free to use PMs without fear that anyone on the staff will access and read them. There are reasonable exceptions to this, like if the recipient asks us to, if I have to debug the site software, or if we are served a search warrant. I admit I have seen others' PMs, but only in the case they were reported to me by the recipient as spam. That said, we've not really had to deal with the issue of privacy between sender and recipient. That is, should PapaG have reasonable expectations that his PMs would not be made public! Or is the PM in essence owned by Further and it is his right to post it? My inclination is the latter - caveat sender. However, posting the sender's private/personal info received in a PM (or that PM in its entirety), would not be allowed. In the spirit of openness and we run this site together, I seek your feedback. Thanks.
If he comes back, shall we submit our avatar suggestions here? Here's mine And as for whether to allow disclosure of PM's, I say it's okay to allow. The last thing we need is S2 members sexting with one another.
Papa G sent these same PMs to myself and some of the other mods last night. I didn't realize he also had sent them to Further also. I'm not against giving back him back his old moniker. Just not at this time. He was banned for one reason and one reason only, personal insults. In reading his PMs I just don't think he understands that. I'm reading excuses out of him, Nate did this, Further said that, drunken rampage, yadda, yadda, yadda. Then he makes demands that I'm suppose to warn all of you that you're not suppose to bring up the past to him. I read that and my first question is after I warn everyone of that and they do bring up the past then what? Does that mean it's ok for PapaG start insulting people again? Next he comes up with the idea that we should have a slam PapaG thread. WTF?!? He was banned for refusing to stop with the personal insults and his solution is to start a thread that personally insults him?!? I'm not trying to bash him. I like him and we've gotten along for the most part. I have no problem sometime in the future going to bat for him to reinstate his PapaG moniker. Because that's what this is really about, reinstatement of a moniker. If we were really banning him he wouldn't be able to PM us. We'd just ban whatever new moniker he created. PapaG, I know you'll read this. If you want your old PapaG moniker back then I suggest you leave all of the excuses behind and just move forward. Post in the Blazer section under your new moniker. Talk Blazers and basketball. If after 50, 100, 200 posts you show that you can post without personally insulting people you disagree with then I'm fine with giving you your moniker back.
IRL, we have the option to speak directly with another person if we desire to communicate but not have that communication saved and subsequently reproduced. In this medium, such option doesn't exist. If we want an "anything you say can and will be used against you" atmosphere, then so be it, but I am of the opinion that absent agreement from both parties, private messages should remain private.
My opinion on PM's is that they should remain private. If one person publicly posts the contents of a PM, I believe it is within the rights of the other person to ask a mod to edit it out.
Yeah, if it gets to that point, they should be doing through their phones, not through S2 PM's. You know Sly scans for such things.
My agreement with this statement is the only thing keeping me from posting the naked photos you PM'd me, Nate.
