LOL! Is it cruel to say that I am terribly curious about what is being discussed in those "private" forums right now?

I had a similar suggestion in the Omni thread before that was locked:

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The moderators have every right to talk about anything they want to, in private.
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I completely agree, and it is a shame that their confidence was violated.

That said, from a pubic (and to a certain extent private) policy perspective, the greatest assest to comity and good leadership is sunshine. Star-chamber type smoky room gossip-mongering is fun and all (and God knows were I on that forum I'd engage in it), but this is two times now that Randy is being embarassed by what is being talked about behind his closed doors by his volunteer helpers. Were I Randy, going forward I would have decision-takers have discussions in a read-only (for all but the decision-makers) forum.

Yes it is true that such openness would stifle decision-takers frankness, but it would also assure decorum and fairness (or at least it would avoid slander).