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Maintenance

Hello,

Similar Worlds will be temporarily unavailable for about 3 hours, during our Upgrade to a new and more powerful Server.

This maintenance is scheduled to take place at: [b][c=#FF0000]Tuesday May 17th, 2:30 am Central Time (8:30 am GMT)[/c][/b] and should take about [b]3 hours[/b] to complete.

We are very happy that our community is growing, and we need to improve our back-end so that we can support the growing traffic and data, while improving reliability at the same time.

After those 3 hours, everything will be back to normal.

Thank you,
Nuno

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Andrew · Admin

Hello @rowenabrana,

No, PMs (Private Messages) won't be monitored by SW staff or other parties, we didn't mention anything about human monitoring.

However, if a report has been made and it is deemed as being serious, then naturally, a staff will have to look into the relevant portions of the private conversation to determine what action must be taken.
This is the same procedure done on EP or any other social network.

Algorithm = Formulas which tell our computers/servers what should be done in various scenarios.

The point of our security systems are to [b]Automatically[/b] protect users in advance from harm, before the need of human intervention.

Such as determining who is allowed to get in contact with another particular member, based on many different factors of engagement on this site.

Our algorithms must act almost human-like in their decisions, to be able to work effectively and reduce false-alarms.

Thus this is a very complex process that takes a lot of time and work to develop well.