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OscarBravo joins the admin team.

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  • 22-11-2009 2:26pm
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    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Just to let you all know. Great to have him on board. not much more to say really!

    DeV.
    Post edited by Shield on


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    Kinetic^
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,249 ✭✭✭✭Kinetic^


    Congrats.


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    #3
    D
    Registered Users Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭D


    OH Noes! Everybody panic!





    Grats


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    #4
    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,210 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Ah, The Little Hitler of Boards. May your reign last days and your death last years.

    (Im just kidding. Go gettim)


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    mike65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 88,978 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    So he can now read my PMs? :eek:


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    Zaph
    Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 47,305 ✭✭✭✭Zaph


    mike65 wrote: »
    So he can now read my PMs? :eek:

    One assumes that you're joking as you're around here long enough to know that that's not the case Mike.

    But for anyone who doesn't get Mike's brand of humour please rest assured that the only times the admins will ever read any of your PMs are 1) When someone reports one of them because you've been abusive or have misbehaved in some other way; or 2) When instructed to do so by court or Garda order, in which case a lot of technical work by Ross or Conor is required just to gain access to the mailbox. This is, quite frankly, far too time consuming and so not worth the effort to be done in anything other than in exceptional circumstances. After that you can be sure that access will be tightly restricted so that the vast majority of admins won't be privy to the contents of your PMs.

    Now, back to our original programming...


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,220 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Coola Boola


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    Nevyn
    Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    Eh not exactly, admin can see a pm you have sent if it is reported by the person to whom you sent it.

    If a pm is reported by a poster the admins see the content of that pm in the report on the post but other then that the admins can not read pms with out going through the process Zaph discribed.


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    Orion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    I must protest. oscarbravo is the bastard mod who gave me the one and only blemish on my otherwise perfect record. The fact that the infraction was completely deserved is totally irrelevant. :D

    IOW - congrats ob - well deserved :)


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    PogMoThoin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,874 ✭✭✭✭PogMoThoin


    Cmon DeV, giving him more powah????

    Grats neways oB :D


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    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    If someone reports a PM the admins can read THAT PM.

    Other then that it takes OS level access and even I dont have that. It also takes a court order or a senior Garda.

    DeV.


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    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 83,210 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    DeVore wrote: »
    If someone reports a PM the admins can read THAT PM.

    Other then that it takes OS level access and even I dont have that. It also takes a court order or a senior Garda.

    DeV.
    Whew, dont mind if I keep running Al Qaeda over PM then.


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    itsallaboutheL
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,333 ✭✭✭✭itsallaboutheL


    Osama wrote:
    Overheal wrote:
    Durka Durka

    Mohommed Jihad

    ..


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    D
    Registered Users Posts: 2,173 ✭✭✭D


    I think his first act should be give Zaph an infraction for taking this thread off topic (and for stealing his thunder).


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    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    It's a long road that has no turns...



    /enigmatic


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    FlutterinBantam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,575 ✭✭✭✭FlutterinBantam


    Zaph wrote: »
    One assumes that you're joking as you're around here long enough to know that that's not the case Mike.

    But for anyone who doesn't get Mike's brand of humour please rest assured that the only times the admins will ever read any of your PMs are 1) When someone reports one of them because you've been abusive or have misbehaved in some other way; or 2) When instructed to do so by court or Garda order, in which case a lot of technical work by Ross or Conor is required just to gain access to the mailbox. This is, quite frankly, far too time consuming and so not worth the effort to be done in anything other than in exceptional circumstances. After that you can be sure that access will be tightly restricted so that the vast majority of admins won't be privy to the contents of your PMs.

    Now, back to our original programming...

    :eek::eek:


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    ConsiderThis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 230 ✭✭ConsiderThis


    DeVore wrote: »
    If someone reports a PM the admins can read THAT PM.

    Other then that it takes OS level access and even I dont have that. It also takes a court order or a senior Garda.

    DeV.

    I have to admit to being somewhat surprised to learn that it only take a nod from a "senior" garda to access anyone's private messages on boards.


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    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,804 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    ConsiderThis wrote: »
    I have to admit to being somewhat surprised to learn that it only take a nod from a "senior" garda to access anyone's private messages on boards.
    Why?


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    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    It takes a letter from a superintendent indicating its part of an ongoing investigation. Its not like your local copper can just nip in and have a browse.

    DeV.


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    DeVore
    Business & Finance Moderators, Entertainment Moderators Posts: 32,387 Mod ✭✭✭✭DeVore


    By the way, back in 1990's myself and others opened the Irish branch of http://www.eff.org/

    Its not like I'm predisposed to giving police access to computer records. I think you could safely say I oppose such things... :)


    DeV.


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    faceman
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators Posts: 16,634 CMod ✭✭✭✭faceman


    Well deserved OscarBravo!

    As for the reading of PM's... I cant even get the recipients of my PM's to read them!


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