This is unbelievable

  • Hatter
    28th Feb 2013 Member 2 Permalink

    I opened my TPT and it said "Big Brother is watching you" in the news text above. In case you don't understand that reference, it is from a book called 1984. Its about a totalitarian society where the government watches everything you do. Their "Uncle Sam" is called Big Brother. His quote: Big Brother is watching. It means that the government sees your every movment. Scary, ehh?

     

    Well I definitly think it is. Fortionetly for us, we live in democratic and free societies (As far as I know) and something like this is far from happening. But when I see a reference to Big Brother on a video game, I want to quit. This is something that's too outrageous. All i'm asking is "How much can TPT spy on you." If it isn't that much, then "Why can't you take that message down?"

  • mniip
    28th Feb 2013 Developer 0 Permalink
    while not interacting with server, (like updating, saving, logging in, commenting) everything is kept private, no one can see your stamps remotely, or see what you do, etc
    All other things are logged on server
  • jacob1
    28th Feb 2013 Developer 0 Permalink
    The motd is picked randomly from a list every night at midnight (7PM EST). I made an updated motd list with more links and other fixes and stuff, and gave it to Simon. He seems to have added a few more to the list, like this one.

    I can tell you what is logged though. We log when you save and stuff, but can't see like an exact histoy of when you start tpt, when exactly you saved everything, etc. Maybe Simon can, but that's probably deep in some log file that no one will ever read unless updating is broken (which happened once). We log when you comment, and can view the last 10 (and the rest are obviously stored somewhere else). Somewhere it's logged where you vote, but I can't look at that most of the time.
    So mniip is right in that all server events are logged somewhere, but they probably aren't ever read.

    And things you do privately not on the server aren't even logged at all, like stamps, local saves, running scripts, etc.


    Maybe if Simon sees this he will remove it from the list. I never read that book, I only knew sort of what it meant. I did think it seemed kind of strange.
  • Amphealy
    28th Feb 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Completely agree with Hatter. That message is a little bit disconcerting. I guess the MOTD is probably in humor. Humor that is impossible to detect in such a short message. However, it creates a lot of room for a paranoid mind to run around in. Personally, I believe if you're not paranoid, then you're probably not paying enough attention. Just my opinion.

  • boxmein
    28th Feb 2013 Former Staff 2 Permalink
    @Hatter (View Post)
    It's a joke. ;_;
  • Hatter
    1st Mar 2013 Member 1 Permalink

    @boxmein (View Post)

    Sometimes jokes go to far.

     

     

  • Candunc
    1st Mar 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    @jacob1 (View Post)

     Ooh, can I have a link to the MOTD? :D

  • bimmo_devices
    4th Mar 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    Why is the small quote thing so scary? I don't take it seriously, and you can' seriously be thinking of taking "Big Brother is Watching You" down!? It is just a little thing that the powder toy do for fun; to get you to check the front page. (Could someone post the whole list please?) I particularly like "shinanigans". PS what does MOTD stand for - m*** Of The Day or something?

  • Sylvi
    4th Mar 2013 Moderator 0 Permalink

    @Hatter (View Post)

    Do you know anything about website administration? Every website and game dives right into your profile. It's common practice and the fact is, most countries are not democratic. Most are a constitutional republic. United States, France, etc.

     

    It's a joke. We're not spreading communism or causing people to cheer on large government.

  • jklujm
    5th Mar 2013 Member 0 Permalink

    @bimmo_devices (View Post)

     MOTD stands for "Message of the Day"