User blog comment:Wildoneshelper/Chat bot crisis/@comment-17897872-20150806205552/@comment-26235098-20150810135510

You did try to point it out, Wilodnes, but the incidents I reported from chat also show that as of today, users in chat very often fail to consider the privacy issue at all while typing. If they did, some things wouldnever have been posted. And when they do think of it after the fact, it's... "Oh noes!" But it's too late to do anything.

Given the current behavior, it seems to me that even those supporting the bot did not think about this, and certainly did not "weigh it in" to say that they believe "primary-source evidence beats privacy problem". You may be right about it, about the preference, but I don't believe that support for the bot truly expressed this preference as I don't believe it was thought through, as evidenced by current awareness/behavior.

The flipside of this is that, with PMs being used more and more... some of the "drama" will shift to occur in PMs, and the bot will not help with that. So basically, the behavioral "solution" to the privacy problem is to evade the bot... which defeats the purpose of the bot.

If the logs could be kept offline or in a place inaccessible to users -- and even admins -- and have to be requested in case of a conflict where two parties dispute what actually happened (which isn't every day!) that could be a solution. I don't know if there is a (simple) way to do this.