What does Ben really host this site for

Gamerdude · Post by **Gamerdude** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:27 pm

I think Ben reads all the PMs everyone sends that way he can steal all of our ideas.

This is just a stupid comment

but I think it is true

. I would really like to know if he does read all the PMs

or if any of the admins get to either.

just something to think about

Rellizate · Post by **Rellizate** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 2:23 pm

Unless the admins have installed a phpBB mod, they cannot read our PMs. And by judging that they havn't even been bothered to install quick reply, or a new skin I doubt that they installed a PM mod.

Gamerdude · Post by **Gamerdude** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:24 pm

The point is, well there is no point

. I just got boarded so I wrote this

. If Ben actually read all the PMs he might help out on the fourms more often.

Also, I didn't even know it was possible to install a mod that would let them do that (don't give them any more ideas).

Rellizate · Post by **Rellizate** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:36 pm

It's possible to install a mod to do anything. phpBB is all open source.

Post by **bicostp** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:09 pm

Rellizate wrote:Unless the admins have installed a phpBB mod, they cannot read our PMs. And by judging that they havn't even been bothered to install quick reply, or a new skin I doubt that they installed a PM mod.

Anyone with access to the database (admins) can read anyone's PMs. The only strings that are encrypted are passwords.

Quick Reply can be nice, I don't know why it's disabled. (Pretty sure it came with phpbb though...)

As for skins, nobody's proposed any...

dudex77 · Post by **dudex77** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:56 pm

....yeah. can the admins really read anyones pms?

Post by **Skyone** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:30 pm

dudex77 wrote: ....yeah. can the admins really read anyones pms?

...

Uh, no. Only Ben or anyone else able to access the SQL database.

gamemasterAS · Post by **gamemasterAS** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:20 pm

LIKE OMG !!!!!

It's SOOO cool to use smiles every other word.

Maybe, just maybe he hosts the site so groups of people can learn how to make portables and so that he has somewhere to display his stuff. I know, Its a pretty far out idea.

Post by **Triton** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:20 pm

admins with access to the database (ben gannon and sparkfist i think all have access, might be wrong) can read PMs yea

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 8:32 pm

It's possible to read PMs, but it's not as simple as going to the "read PM" section or anything like that. Doing that would require dumping the entire database (posts, accounts, PMs, settings, etc.) and running the right queries to find all PMs sent/received by a certain person

Post by **Sparkfist** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 7:26 am

SpongeBuell wrote:It's possible to read PMs, but it's not as simple as going to the "read PM" section or anything like that. Doing that would require dumping the entire database (posts, accounts, PMs, settings, etc.) and running the right queries to find all PMs sent/received by a certain person

All you members can be at ease I don't know how to use SQL to do such things nor would I waste the time in doing a backup of the system to do such a search if I could.

Post by **benheck** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:19 am

Why the heck would I want to read PM's? I can certainly think of good ideas on my own!

-Ben

ATOMICMAN · Post by **ATOMICMAN** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:20 am

benheck wrote:Why the heck would I want to read PM's? I can certainly think of good ideas on my own!

-Ben

LIES!!

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 8:39 am

I, too, have been asked this question on my forums.

I bet Openoffice.org could do the trick, but it'd still be a lot of trouble. You'd have to dump the database every time, & for a forum like this, it's probably over 20MB.

jones · Post by **jones** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:05 am

This is the same sort of crap I hear at my job all the time since I'm in IT. There are many people who think we read their e-mail.

Could I read it?

- Yes

Do I read it?

- No

Given the volume of e-mail received it would be impossible to read all of it no matter how badly you wanted to. If a manager voices a concern about a particular employee then a particular account is scrutinized.

I, and I'm sure Ben in the case of the PM's, have much better things to do than read other peoples messages/e-mail.

I'm sure if this becomes a great concern to all of you, Ben can just go into PHP Admin and click the Disabled radio button next to Private Messaging and that would put an end to the matter right there.

Also, I am curious, can you cite any examples where Ben stole someone's ideas from a PM?

It's one thing to make accusations, it's quite another to fulfill the burden of proof.