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Post by Kami on May 24, 2020 6:30:57 GMT -8
I don't understand what you say.
I understand about write: let fade to black everuthing.
If I made a forum, using proboards service, the provider of the sevice, the staff of proboards support can vew all the content I posted on my forum? Even if some boards are staff only acces? Yes. The ProBoards staff has access to everything posted anywhere on all of the various boards on their servers. BUT, that doesn't mean that they sit around reading every single post by every single member of every single board. I can't confirm this absolutely, but I'd be willing to bet that, unless someone reports something to someone, they generally don't snoop. They just don't have the time. That's just my thinking though... due to the math: 22945 forums (according to their "Forum Directory" page). If only 25% are active with at least 20 posts a day (most active ones would have more... but being generous here to their time available so limiting the number of posts) that would be 5736 forums to access and 114,720 posts to read EVERY DAY... not to mention the few posts on the slow boards as well as the "over 20 posts" on many, many very active boards It's just not reasonable. ETA: for reference, I'm on a board that did 220 posts in the last 24 hours (breaking my hypothetical "20 posts" barrier by 200 extra posts) Several people here are on boards that are way more active than that. You're correct in that PB staff doesn't manually go through every hosted forum looking for content. However they don't rely solely on user reports, the last I heard. There's content that automatically gets flagged for review if posted. I know in the past that the occasional "spot check" has been done (especially if a forum violating ToS posts for help here on support) though I don't know if that's still the current policy. But morever to the opening poster: unless the purpose of the whole forum is to allow content that goes against the terms of service, you don't need to be scared about PB deleting your forum without warning. If a few posts get out of hand and it comes to their attention, they will contact you through a super user account (they won't need to register, so anyone who registers to tell you that you're in trouble and claims they are from proboards is not being truthful) and let you know which posts are an issue. They'll work with you to get the forum back on track. (:
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Post by RichardInTN on May 24, 2020 16:39:40 GMT -8
Yes. The ProBoards staff has access to everything posted anywhere on all of the various boards on their servers. BUT, that doesn't mean that they sit around reading every single post by every single member of every single board. I can't confirm this absolutely, but I'd be willing to bet that, unless someone reports something to someone, they generally don't snoop. They just don't have the time. That's just my thinking though... due to the math: 22945 forums (according to their "Forum Directory" page). If only 25% are active with at least 20 posts a day (most active ones would have more... but being generous here to their time available so limiting the number of posts) that would be 5736 forums to access and 114,720 posts to read EVERY DAY... not to mention the few posts on the slow boards as well as the "over 20 posts" on many, many very active boards It's just not reasonable. ETA: for reference, I'm on a board that did 220 posts in the last 24 hours (breaking my hypothetical "20 posts" barrier by 200 extra posts) Several people here are on boards that are way more active than that. You're correct in that PB staff doesn't manually go through every hosted forum looking for content. However they don't rely solely on user reports, the last I heard. There's content that automatically gets flagged for review if posted. I know in the past that the occasional "spot check" has been done (especially if a forum violating ToS posts for help here on support) though I don't know if that's still the current policy. But morever to the opening poster: unless the purpose of the whole forum is to allow content that goes against the terms of service, you don't need to be scared about PB deleting your forum without warning. If a few posts get out of hand and it comes to their attention, they will contact you through a super user account (they won't need to register, so anyone who registers to tell you that you're in trouble and claims they are from proboards is not being truthful) and let you know which posts are an issue. They'll work with you to get the forum back on track. (: Right. I figured that there was probably some "watchdog software" looking for specific things... I was just referring to the privacy issue. No one is sitting there reading every single post. A "live person" generally doesn't get involved in post checking unless something is reported to them... be it by a person or by automated means.
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