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I split the posts dealing with a potential private forum from the "Peace and Unity" thread.

After discussing this with Moderators, we are not going to set up a private forum. It's just not workable this far into the Forum's existence. If it had been started eleven years ago, it would have been fine.

There are two primary factors that make a useful private forum a logistical nightmare to create. First, post counts won't work because we have long-term Members who don't post very often. We also have Members who are hanging on by a thread (in terms of always pushing the envelope on acceptable posts) but who have high post counts. We have anti-gun moles who have been registered for a good while. Post count won't work.

I considered an alternative that I won't post on the open Forum, but was going to be a logistical impossibility in terms of man-hours.

As much as I wanted a private forum, there's no fair way to set it up without either leaving out good Members or letting in people I don't want in a private section. Please don't offer suggestions, our Moderators have considered this thoroughly and I don't want anyone to think we just ignored your input.

Chas.

rtschl wrote:Thank you Charles!

Don't forget you'll need to stop search engines crawling on "private members area only".

Yep, all bots will be blocked.

Chas.

brichard wrote:Charles
Thank you for yet another well thought out and well communicated communication.
Though I have never been opposed to open carry, I have been one that was always concerned by the potential impacts as you have mentioned.
Regarding limiting access to only those with a larger number of posts, I would like to mention that there are probably many members like myself that are not big posters, but get big benefits from the comments of others. I have been a member since 2011 and have very few personal posts or replies, but do monitor the forum several times a week to glean the knowledge of others. While I do not open carry at this time, I would like to be able to keep up with what is going on in that area along with concealed carry.

That's why implementing a private section is problematic. We have some viable methods, but they will be VERY labor-intensive.

Chas.

The Annoyed Man wrote:Thank you, and yes, I will refrain. I do have a question...... Is it possible to make the open carry forum visible only to logged in users with more than a certain number of posts? That would make it unavailable to the Bloombots, and a minimum post requirement would make it unavailable to trolls.

Just a thought.

Funny you should mention that. It's being discussed by the Moderators now.

Chas.