Moderators (requests and notices)

TM was only asking why this thread wasn't private, not all the threads or the whole forum.

I suppose it was originally intended for minor incidents not necessarily involving forumengers as well as for forumenger incidents, but it's evolved to be almost exclusively the latter.

Exactly...

With respect to the Forum Rider Down thread, it was started to reduce the number of minor incident threads. As with everything online, you should assume that people who you don't know will read it and it could come back to bite you at a later date. This would still be the case even if it was in a private area.

It would be accessible to strangers that are members of the forum of course, but, if I understand how le google works, the forum rider down thread wouldn't generate google results if searched, if it were private. Which is the point I'm raising. Surely these personal matters would be better off protected from wandering eyes.