Since I’ve gotten at least one question about this just tonight, and with certain other platforms having policy changes around this, the question gets brought up: What information do we keep regarding your RP on Wolfery.
In short, there are not and never have been persistent logs. Mucklet’s design is to maximize privacy by not doing this. Nobody, not moderators, not admins, can look at anythign they are not shown. There are two things to keep note of however, or really questions you may have regarding how the system works:
1: How do mod tickets work, then?
When you report something said on Wolfery and do the whole ‘report timeframe’ dialog, this sends the log from a database in your browser back to Wolfery. It is not stored on the server until you send it back for the moderators to look at. When things are said, they are cryptographically signed by the server and that signature is stored by your browser, so that we will know if someone modifies the in-browser database to falsify information. (If I remember correctly, this has never happened except a couple times we’ve tested to make sure it works, and one amusing time when the ‘roll’ command was new and there was a bug where they weren’t signed.)
2: But there seems to be a persistent scrollback?
This is partly true. Of course there is the normal scrollback that is 100% stored on your browser. For a time (an hour or so) scrollback is kept buffered to send to other of your own sessions, for example if you change browsers mid-session. In theory of course this could be read out, but there are no tools or systems to do so. Of course there is also the log on your browser of what you have directly seen, which you can manage with your cache and data storage controls in your browser.
Obviously this involves a little bit of trust that we’re not secretly logging everything in a big file somewhere. However, some aspects (how moderator reports work) can be audited in the front end code on github, if you wish.
Everyone on the team is committed to user privacy, previous experience on mucks and other sites guides this. We take as a tradeoff that our moderation can be limited as a result in some cases. We think that tradeoff is good for all users, in balance.