With the recent discussion about moderators reading PMs, I think its important to shed a little sunlight on some recent developments. While the Ish is clearly dying (less than 300 posts over the entire weekend), many still have accounts over there.
As many of you already know, several of us were banned as soon as the anonymous Dr. Mantis took over the board. This banning consisted of reset passwords as all of our accounts still existed. Approximately 10 days after the banning, Xar and myself realized that we could get back into our accounts by simply having a password reset sent to our email accounts (Yeah, we should have figured it out sooner). This was Sunday, February 5th. After gaining access to our accounts we both went in and deleted all PM activity in our inbox and sent folders. Neither of us posted or sent PMs with our accounts.
Approximately a day later, I decided to log back in and lo and behold, the entire account was deleted. I find it highly suspicious that the account was active until I was able to reset my password and delete my PM activity. It is almost as if someone was logging into my account on a regular basis to read PMs then deleted the entire account when they realized something had changed. Very suspicious. All Reborner accounts have now been deleted entirely.
I have some other more damning evidence of PM reading but I don't want to reveal it publicly as the person who told me will most likely get banned on the Ish. I am more than happy to tell the story via PM so just hit me up.
This story just highlights the dangers of having an anonymous moderator. There is just no accountability whatsoever.
In closing, as many have suggested over the past couple of weeks, this is very unethical behavior. I propose that all boards create some guidelines for moderator ethics. Reborn will be the trailblazer in this area and will have our guidelines posted later this week. We only hope that the other boards will follow suit.