Hello All.

I have been ask through the years and recent to setup private forums. These forums would not be visible to the public or general members.

So, I'm opening the idea up for discussion. Many thing as possible and how members can access can be controlled in many ways like:

- Minimum number of posts before they can view/post
- Need to be "sponsored" before they can access
- Need to pay/year or make a donation of X amount <- Like this one.

It has been suggested that some info here is too good to make available publicly. So we could do something like existing threads created by members can be moved in to private forums they belong to.

This is primarily a discussion to create "special" forums for "special" members. However we can discus private forums for associations / companies as well.

Thoughts?