I have no expectation of strong privacy on the site. I do expect politeness in not publishing or using my DM or other content, but that line is fuzzy and monitoring for spam (not just metadata; content and similarity-of-content) is absolutely something I want from the site.
For something actually private, I might use DMs to establish a mechanism. Feel free to look at that.
If you -do- intend to provide real privacy, you should formalize the criteria, and put up a canary page that says you have not been asked to reveal any data under a sealed order.
edit to add: I am relatively paranoid about privacy, and also quite technically-savvy in implementation of such. I’d FAR rather the site just plainly say “there is no expectation of privacy, act accordingly” than that it try to set expectations otherwise, but then have to move line later. Your Terms of Service are clear, and make no distinction for User Generated Content between posts, comments, and DMs.
I have no expectation of strong privacy on the site. I do expect politeness in not publishing or using my DM or other content, but that line is fuzzy and monitoring for spam (not just metadata; content and similarity-of-content) is absolutely something I want from the site.
For something actually private, I might use DMs to establish a mechanism. Feel free to look at that.
If you -do- intend to provide real privacy, you should formalize the criteria, and put up a canary page that says you have not been asked to reveal any data under a sealed order.
edit to add: I am relatively paranoid about privacy, and also quite technically-savvy in implementation of such. I’d FAR rather the site just plainly say “there is no expectation of privacy, act accordingly” than that it try to set expectations otherwise, but then have to move line later. Your Terms of Service are clear, and make no distinction for User Generated Content between posts, comments, and DMs.