[legionofangels]

Anyone that runs there own website and pays for it has every right to do whatever they want with it. Make it a porn website, make it a I hate Obama website, make it a KKK White Power website.

Therefore if the content in itself can be whatever they want it to be, any modification of that website, including forum modifications can be what they want as well.

Any attack or questioning of morality and good conduct based upon the modifications from vBulletin.org that an admin chooses to use is entirely irrelevant. What one person sees as invasive and wrong another can defend with the reason why it's used.

For example : Miserable User - most people use this when they have a troll who's been banned 20 times and keeps making accounts.

I don't even use the mod, but I had a guy make 12 accounts in one day, should I babysit my website all day long while at work with a member like this? Or do I have the right to add that modification and let it take care of them by itself?

....Oh yeah I pay for the website I can do whatever I want. So can everyone else.

The closest one to unethical of that you listed is the Read PM one as reading other people's mail in the US at least is a Felony 10K fine, etc. However we do use that, for one purpose - and only in this scenario - if a new user joins and all they do on the WOL page is "send pm's". We double check to make sure it's spam, and then ban them.

It's not like we're reading people's love letters to each other, and since I'm the only one who can read them or admins can and they don't even know the modification was added, I don't consider it unethical at all.

P.S. The real issue here is that you're arguing the morality and justification or unjustification of other's choices and that's the point entirely, none of us have to be moral or justified in anything we do. So the whole complaint, while I hope it made you feel better is irrelevant to everyone but you.