WARNING: Org channels are never lost

[Mercatura]

You can kick people from your guild, but beware.

Once you let someone in your guild, they acquire your guild channel. Then if you kick them some time later (for whatever reason) they can still see your channel on the chat client, and talk on it.

Lessons to be learned:
-No org channel is secure (I'm sure theres a way for people to get to your channel without ever being invited as well)
-Troublesome people can continue to bother your guild, sure you all can ignore them, but everyone has to do it themselves.
-Create/Use some form of a chat bot that works on invite only and can kick/ban people from the channel.

Possible problems:
-It may be possible for people to snoop on bot channels as well, meaning no ingame communication is "safe", except direct tells.
-Any GM/Ark channels may not be safe either! I don't actually know if they have any that they use, but I suspect they do.

(PS, I know this is a crosspost, but its probably a big deal for many orgs)

[redsnaper]

We did our own testing by kicking an alt from the guild yesterday. There was no guild channel on the alt's chat. Could accessing the guild channel be attributed to the bot?

Not meant as a flame, but shouldn't this have been on leader chat instead of the public forums?

[assassimon]

If you kick a player they can read the GC if the player was logged in on chat when he got kicked and is still logged on, if he log out and back in, it doesn't work anymore (atleast not when I tested)

[georg]

hmm that must have been fixed then. Hell weird enough I can even log into chars I deleted via the chat client and one of them was in a guild and could see the chat. But thats apparently fixed.

[Mercatura]

Heh it hasn't been fixed...but it only works until they log off the chat client.

Since the bot was up and still chatting after being kicked for over a week, I didn't realize that it had actually managed to stay connected without dropping the entire time. (quite a feat of luck lol)