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From what I've heard it's pretty common for controversial private messages to simply disappear from one's inbox.
by williamscales 9y ago
From what I've heard it's pretty common for controversial private messages to simply disappear from one's inbox.
- exikyut 9y agoCan 100% confirm this happens on imgur too. Shared a link - I don't remember what it was, unfortunately - trying to ID someone who'd done something stupid on the internet, that sort of thing. My "I just sent an interesting PM and it probably won't disappear but just in case it does this is a canary message" stayed, and the interesting message actually did disappear. The chat bubble remained, the message content was gone (so the bubble was tiny). Feel really really stupid I believed "nah, it won't disappear" enough not to screenshot both messages beforehand >.< TIL that day that the imgur moderators (that, like all unpaid moderator situations, have a reasonable amount of drama associated with them) have access to PMs. Nice.
- kuschku 9y agoThe same applies to IRC. An IRC network owned by PrivateInternetAccess, Snoonet, also applies censoring filters to your private messages, and redirecte them to volunteer moderators in case you should use words that they consider worthy of censoring ("to prevent spam", of course) I think that says everything one needs to know when even companies that claim to focus on privacy do this.