Recent content by MoonShadows

Good disclosure! (y)

I may be mistaken, but XF is one of the only forums that calls them Conversations. For years other forums have called them Private Conversations or something very similar. Most forum participants belong to multiple forums. I believe that is where expectations of privacy have come from. I'll bet...

Even though they are called conversations, members have expectations of privacy. Tell them upfront that is not the case.

I don't buy that. I think it is a control issue IMO.

The concept is unethical unless you let your members know that their conversations are not private. It's sneaky. Tell them up front that these are not private conversations if you are going to monitor them.

I know no conversation on the internet is "private" unless encrypted as do most people using the internet today, but to call them private conversations and then actively monitor them is two different things. While forum users know someone could read their private conversations, they do not...

UNETHICAL if you are going to call them private conversations. If you are going to call them monitored conversations, then that's fine.

@suineg Go to Forums > Nodes > click on the Node where you want to create a poll, scroll down to just under the Navigation Section and check the choice "Allow polls to be created in this forum"...and Save. When you go to that forum, you'll be able to create a poll.

Found it!

I have created polls on my forum in the past, but today I wanted to create one and there was no option visible. I am just wondering if I could have turned off a permission by mistake, but I can't find a permission for this any where. Can someone offer advice? Thanks.

Will do. I'll work on it over the next few days.

Thanks @ozzy47. I'll do that.

I know what they're called, but he called them Private Conversations, and let's face facts, when used, no one who uses the Conversation function has the expectation that anyone else but the recipient is seeing the message, so let's not play semantics here. Yes, they can be found in the data...

If these massages are to be monitored, then don't call them Private Conversations and be up front with that fact with the members. And, if someone is that worried about illicit activity in Private Conversations, then Private Messaging should should be disabled and all forum communication should...

I had written a post here earlier and then deleted it as not to stir up controversy, by I not only agree with @Thibeault, I think it is highly unethical to monitor "private conversations", and if you are going to do so, you should state it on your forum. Otherwise you are misleading your...