This post or rule should be stickied or otherwise added to Canon somehow guys mk
Yes, we should add on mail somewhere that PMs shouldn't be considered as private as email. I did say something to that effect 2034 days ago: But, we could make it clear.Importantly, only those users included in a message can read the mail and comments. However, Hubski mail is stored as plain-text on our server and privacy is permission-based only. For that reason, please don't post very sensitive or personal information in Hubski mail.
My observation of the issue is that it's two-fold: one; there is an issue which should be circulated (as it has been), but also two; new users aren't going to know that, and with the current set-up of Hubski, this post, and your 2034-day old post, simply aren't going to get seen by others going forward as they "bump down" in the feed. My mind's on governance these days as I try to set up this project for work, which is why I think it's important to point out/remember that while it's great - absolutely great and important - that we create posts and share issues real-time with the current hubski community, in the way we do now -- we have to keep a mind for the people who are going to come along after us, whether that's in a day, a week, a month, or a year. So stuff like this should get added to one of the basic "about," "faq," "tmi," or etc pages - or the mail page - or whichever place suits the topic best - but we can't forget to do that housekeeping on the back end as well as this front-end alert of the current active community. My concern's not just, or maybe even not mostly, about or regarding site-wide clarity - it's for the users who won't have ever seen this post because they weren't here when it happened.