sort of mind-game, I guess

[Agent Proto]

Imagine this if you will. One day you pop up on the forums, and you notice something slightly different. For some unknown reason, you have the ability to view the Staff Forum, but you're not able to post anything inside the forum. You seem to be the only non-staff member with this on the forums. However, the entire staff are actually aware that you have access, so much that in fact you get a PM from one informing you about this and lets you know that if one of them catches you viewing the Staff Forum, they will immediately ban you. Maybe this is some sort of game they are playing on you...

Remember, you can view the staff forum but can't post, and you'll be banned if you get caught viewing the forum by an online staff member, so there is a risk involved. What would you do?

(If you do happen to be a staff member, pretend that you aren't to play along!)

[Rye]

I would totally do it. What I would do is load a page in one tab, then immediately load another, log out, and then log in again and go onto front page. I think it would come up as you viewing the front page, as opposed to the staff forum. Heehehe.

[Lawr]

Do you hear that guys? I'm watching you.

[Madame Adequate]

I'd view it and tell them to smurf themselves with a splintery plank wrapped in rusty barbed wire if they can't get their own god damn site working properly that's their problem not mine.

[Momiji]

Nothing to see there aside from the volumes of warnings I've accumulated over the past 4.5 years

[Unbreakable Will]

Hmmmm a moral conundrum...
Do it I say! I would tell them to protect the innerworkings better if they don't want me reading their blather about which non-staff member they would smurf.

[Jojee]

I'd be like "okay whatever" and go about life as usual.

Then Raistlin would log into my account and view the staff forum and I'd get banned. o_o

Yes, I can see this happening.

[Trumpet Thief]

Post porn obvs

[Unbreakable Will]

^ ah, this gent has the right idea.

[Raistlin]

I'd be like "okay whatever" and go about life as usual.

Then Raistlin would log into my account and view the staff forum and I'd get banned. o_o

Yes, I can see this happening.

Ahaha, that would be how it happened, too.

The staff wouldn't ban someone for viewing a forum they were given access to. But if you wanted to boil the dilemma down to a pure dichotomy between a choice of "viewing the staff forum and getting banned vs. not being banned," then I'd pick not being banned.

[The Space Pope]

I'd view the forum and sell its secrets to the Chinese.

[rubah]

I would use my superior SQL/vb knowledge to make a second version of the forum that doesn't require any authentication and just read it without having it connected to my account

[Peegee]

Somebody explicitly offered to ban me for doing something I can easily do?

You'd see Pureghetto 'viewing' a thread in that forum while I afk awaiting justice.

[krissy]

staff can see you even if you decide to go invisible?

[rubah]

Krissy has a red chocobo.