Don't like it. I am big on the view that the forums, or the computers, should not be part of the game. The forums are just our media we use to interact. Of course, I'm willing to allow the quote function because it's so damn useful
What I mean is, we should be sitting around in a circle talking. We do this using the forums. But that's all the forums should be. They should not be a tool for hiding secret messages (feel free to hide them in text, that could be done in reality also, but things like
just don't fit the theme of the game at all). They should not be a tool for confirmation (omg, he was sending a PM at X:XXpm, just before the mod reopened the thread, or this example here with the screenshot). Even looking at what other threads they are posting in, or checking their previous games, is out of character, though I cant help doing this last one at times.