Privacy

Privacy

There is no privacy on Haven.

All logins to Haven are at our whim, and the best way for us to watch and be sure that bugs are not being abused is to watch random players or listen in on conversation to see what things people are talking about. This is our primary source of feedback about the world we have created.

Over two years of random snooping, scanning, and generally paying attention, we have squished many of the bugs that people thought were 'features' of the mud.

For example, but not limited to:

Wearing 6 shields, all in differant parts of the body. Newbies learning languages at 100% People ganging up to learn languages at obscene paces. among others.

Also, through this, we have found bugs that came with our MudLib that have been ruthlessly destroyed.

Honestly, it is paranoia. We log more things on Haven than anyone could possibly imagine. But each one is for a reason.

Every file that someone looks at that they are not the owner of is logged, to make sure that our efforts as a mud are not borrowed by other muds.

Prayers are logged so that Immortals can scan them to see if anyone prayed to them while they were logged off.

Telepathy is logged to watch for people spamming each other or abusing the IC/ooc rules. Since it was created, the telepathy spell has been close to being removed three times as a bother.

There is -=no=- private communication of a global nature allowed on Haven. This is why there is no 'tell' command between players. That is due to the THEME and STYLE that we created when we opened Haven.

Random scanning of players reveals objects which seem like EVERYONE has them, to insure that balance is being served.

Honestly, people should NOT assume that Haven is someplace to log in and talk to their friends about their most closely guarded secrets. If you are not comfortable with the fact that an Arch might see it, then DO NOT TALK ABOUT IT ON HAVEN.

There are several commercial programs, such as ICQ, AOL-IM, and even email or a telephone that can be used privately.

If anyone would like to discuss this issue further, please mudmail Duuk he'll get back to you.

The Haven Admin