[The Human Santapede]

Originally Posted by Jack_

Why do mods get to see who's appearing offline genuine question, it's probably an obvious answer but I'm too tired to figure it out

It helps us to monitor members and make sure they are not doing stuff they shouldn't be and to see whose wall they may be viewing so we can check for wall posts to see if they are trying to wind a member up or insult them. It's standard forum protocol for most forums to allow mod and admin to see everyone who is online.

There is however this illusion that we can read PM's, we cannot. We can see who you are PM'ing, but we cannot ever read them. Only admin can do that and even then they will only do that in rare circumstances.