I welcome the idea of private messages here. Some of us don’t have or even like Discord. Maybe, to begin with, we don’t want to share our Battletag where people can see what we play, when we’ve been online etc.
A good private messaging system within the forum, with the opportunity to block/ignore anyone who abuses it would be a fine addition. I don’t see why moderators would need to be involved so their workload would not increase. Since we have to pay to use the forum anyway, I think the ability to private message would sweeten the pot.
Some ppl I knew through games went back 20 years from just some random game we happent to stumble on originally.
Some that I met through video games we went climbing in real. Heck with some I even went live in sailboat for some 3 weeks sailing adventure to visit 4 countries at baltic with boat, and I knew these people from video games.
You can interact with people anywhere and internet is no different to any other place in the world. I think it all depends just a lot on oneself individually
Aren’t private messages kinda privacy thing? You know, messages which are not supposed to be seen by anyone including the mods. Unless one side reports other of course.
Not on a Forum. Likely regular mods cant access them but anything higher likely can and admins can anyway. Even Discord can read your DMs (and they do. Your chats are constantly being scanned to begin with on top of that). The only thing they are prohibited from doing is making said DMs public.
Mods will likely only request access to your DMs as the result of a report.
Because there are many countries with specific laws about Private messages like moderation can’t ban or do anything against people who send rude messages and worst stuff like insult, racism etc
why ? because Private message is considerate as private and you can’t (except for criminal things) report them.
I dont want PM because I dont want to recieve insult, racist, troll, “Corn” stuff in my inbox
It will be no different to flagging. If there is something rule breaking you’ll report it. A moderator will investigate. There is no right to misbehave in private messages.
My point is that 99.9% of messages will presumably not be reported because there will be no reason to do so, and therefore mods will not have extra work which you claimed that they will.
I’m not a lawyer, so can’t confirm/deny that claim.
All I know from my job is that German customers are a nightmare when it comes to their data requirements.
Yes, because Germany takes it very seriously. However monitoring (with prior agreement from the one that is being monitored) is not uncommon in Germany (even if frowned upon and generally disliked).
Key point here being that you have to be informed as otherwise you could assume nobody would sniff around in your private stuff and the judge would side with you in such a case. However that’s just germany, who knows how it looks like in other nations.
Discord at least seems to be faring well despite them constantly scanning DMs and Private Servers. So Blizzard could and would likely just use such a system for EU accounts rather than have mods read DMs outside of reports (also causes less of an uproar).
It’s like that in most countries. In some law states that citizens data must not leave country which APPARENTLY is why ZAM left several countries few years ago.
