Logging of all chat

[Sen]

Hello,

I hope Im not too fast with putting this into the complaint section, but it's a point that disturbs me.
If I, as non-programmer, understand it right, the chatmanager.cpp (ChatManager::HandleMessage) defines a logging for the ingame chat.
What I don't like is, that apparently everything what is said will be logged on server side, including contents of group and tell.
While I don't really see the point of logging chat in general, I especially oppose the logging of the channels that are meant to be private.

Is the logging of everything really necessary, or can it be turned off - at least for the non public channels?
I hope that this could be done, but if not we should think about mentioning, at some place where the players can see it, that everything that is said in game will be
held in a log file.

Any further information, for example about how long the logs will be held, would be welcome, too.

Regards
Sen

[Caarrie]

the only thing i see being logged in that section is the /report command on others where it logs /say and /tell for 5 minutes i dont see where it autologs all chat that is done by everyone

[neko kyouran]

it logs chat for the reason of how the report command works, which is a retroactive command, being that if someone does a /report, it not only crates a file for review of the next 5 minutes of chat that comes across the persons screen, but the previous 5 minutes as well, so that offensive individuals do not get away scott free if they happen to stop their offensive-ness after a /report is done.

after chat is 5 minutes old, it is removed so your chat is never stored forever. 

[Sen]

Thats good to hear.

Thank you for the quick and clear response 

Sen

[zanzibar]

I pushed for the report command to be retroactive some time ago for the reasons neko provides.

Ultimately, everything you hear and write in game goes through the server and is accessible to the devs, so there really is no such thing as privacy - with or without the report command.