New conspiracy theory!! P.M.'s are being moderated now??

Over Christmas, I got first moderated to death for posting a wholesome christmas message, then whilst trying to P.M. a forum member this little beauty pops up...

This is a little too orwellian for me to stomach. P.M.s are personal or private messages by their very definition, and should be mostly unavailable to third parties. 

Also we seem to have a culture of "Silent Accusers" generally developed in this country where people can make accusations against you and trigger "lawfare" without you ever being told who they are, or even the copy of the accusation that has been laid to "authority" made available to you.

There have been quite a few posts that illustrate this if you are aware of and see it as a problem.

Although I've grown quite "fond" of some of you, I've also previously adminstered one forum on the same platform as the alternative to this one and I knw that over there my personal mesages are only going to be read by the recipients and not some third party who might find them triggering or offensive and institute sanctions against me without my knowledge. As currently happens to me every single holiday when the mods are off now....

The internet is already NOT a safe place for people like me, I prefer a forum which doesn't metaphorically have "A wiretap on my phone".

Did you consent to having your PM's overseen routinely?

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  • I got first moderated to death for posting a wholesome christmas message, then whilst trying to P.M. a forum member this little beauty pops up...

    It could easily not be the case, but I wonder whether the warning message about the PMs might be inaccurate in a technical and literal sense.

    In my case (explained here), the moderation of my account seems to have been triggered by me posting a new thread (which has yet to appear). A routine reply that I then posted in response to a new member was then also quarantined (and also still hasn't been approved).

    It was only after both of those happening that I tried to send a very short and innocuous private message (which didn't contain any dodgy words or phrases), resulting in the same warning message as the one that you posted above. Although I can now post again, that PM also still doesn't appear in my message history.

    Perhaps the PMs aren't actually / can't actually be read, but are instead just automatically also held, pending the review and release of the other content that the filters had decided to quarantine at around that same time. Just a thought.

    Either way, it would be nice to know what's actually happening. 

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  • I got first moderated to death for posting a wholesome christmas message, then whilst trying to P.M. a forum member this little beauty pops up...

    It could easily not be the case, but I wonder whether the warning message about the PMs might be inaccurate in a technical and literal sense.

    In my case (explained here), the moderation of my account seems to have been triggered by me posting a new thread (which has yet to appear). A routine reply that I then posted in response to a new member was then also quarantined (and also still hasn't been approved).

    It was only after both of those happening that I tried to send a very short and innocuous private message (which didn't contain any dodgy words or phrases), resulting in the same warning message as the one that you posted above. Although I can now post again, that PM also still doesn't appear in my message history.

    Perhaps the PMs aren't actually / can't actually be read, but are instead just automatically also held, pending the review and release of the other content that the filters had decided to quarantine at around that same time. Just a thought.

    Either way, it would be nice to know what's actually happening. 

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