Admins should totally be able to see private topics. Moderators perhaps not (permission), but admins should.
This topic was marked solved by Nao, on June 4th, 2014, 12:58 AM
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Nao
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Just a thought...
What if someone is reporting a private topic to moderator or admin?
How to take action when they can't see it?
Anyway, I really think that it's not okay to be able to read private topics if you aren't 'invited' to them, even if you're the admin.
I think that because the one who enforces the rule is French, it also protects German admins from getting in trouble. The software is built that way, so a private topic, by definition, would be considered outside of the admin's domain/jurisdiction, and thus admins wouldn't be liable.
I for sure would be amused to see an admin being judged for the contents of a PM. And yet, to me, a PM is exactly the same as a private topic... It's just not using the same DB table.
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Testing welcome.