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[Kracka]

I agree with Jakey about the private messages not being private. I too have had my PM's read (on several occasions) by moderators and they even attepted to use them against me...not cool in my book. Either make them completely 100% private or do-away with them all together. Allan has said there are several circumstances that warrant a PM to be read by moderators, I would like to know exactly what those cirumstances are. You say that PM's are publically posted; if that is so then they should be renamed to something more appropriate. Obviously Allan knows that the actions taken by moderators is wrong as he has already threatened to deleted any more posts regarding this controversy. I know that moderators always want to exert as much of their power as possible, me included; this is just human nature. I can think of an instance where I have was in a similar situation on a different DSM board; I realized my wrong and have since corrected the problem.