RE: Ever wonder what the admins of this site do in their super secret hidden forum?
January 9, 2018 at 2:25 pm
(January 9, 2018 at 4:09 am)LastPoet Wrote:(January 8, 2018 at 5:16 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: I'm on another message board where admins did spy in the PM system. The one major difficulty with that ODIOUS practice is if you're an admin who does shit like that is you had better be a DAMN good actor and never tip your hand as a result of knowing something you shouldn't. I am on record behind the curtain here as being absolutely opposed to looking at any PM in the database unless we have an EXTREMELY good reason (threat to the message board existence level or higher) to do so.
We have a thing: keep out of the PM log unless there is a good reason to go there.
One time I was checking if a user was spamming-via-PM, it's a thing, and saw on the logs something that shouldn't. I was playing Mafia at the time and saw a bunch of back and forth messages between 2 players in mafia. My brain immediately knew who were the scum. I had to ask Kitty the game Mod to replace me as it would be unfair. Fortunately no need as I ended up NightKilled and naturally off the game.
Funnily enough... not on this site, but on another site I play Mafia on I suspect there is a mod who cheats like this in every mafia game he plays. He's a mod for a different part of the forum, and a really horrible mafia player. Never scumhunts, doesn't even write coherent sentences, rarely understands the game, constant lurker... and almost without fail calls the scumteam correctly on day 1 every game. Usually gets mislynched because he's absurdly overconfident in his conclusion, and then gloats after the game about how everyone should have listened to him.
No evidence that he's cheating - everyone just assumes he has an incredible gut - but it's certainly something I suspect. There are a couple of things he's 'guessed' that have just made my jaw drop.
