Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1370845-20141107202502/@comment-25932182-20141107211558

"DrodoEmpire, the ability and right to look back on previous discussions would not be lost when, as I said, you can simply log the IRC channel yourselves."

I know; But this would make the removal and restriction to admins-only totally redundant as now I, a regular user, have them too. On top of that, lets just say I wanted to twist someone's quote to use against them; Less scrupulous users could do that too and, as long as no admins where around, appear very convincing.

"The ability and right for us to look back on previous discussions is compromised by the ability and right for anyone, part of the wiki or not, to use the logs to search for potential gossip, for potential 'feuds', and to also see what previous hate comments have been made directed to anyone, is compromised by such a movement."

Who gossips about a active member of the wiki on a public, logged channel? Obviously they'd know they be found out; And if they did for some highly unusual reason I'm sure they'd put a space before their message to make sure it was not logged. As for people from the outside looking in; Sure, its creepy, but what do we have to fear from some random individual?

"While you do not feel a sense of paranoia, you are not the only user on the IRC channel, that I am sure you are aware of."

Of course I am not the "only user on the IRC channel", but I have also yet to see a single person on the wiki express their "paranoia" over the logs, which is odd for me.

"Regarding your query of private logs; they would be accessible to whoever chooses to log them, and we should probably make logs available to admins."

See my first point.

Thanks for reading.