Originally Posted by MikeMpls

It wasn't supposed to be. When people who had thought their OMNI posts were not open to search engines & to the public discovered that the restriction had been quietly removed, there was a bit of a rucus.

Personally I would open it up. Many forum sites have "off-topic" forums. But removing the content contributed by those who were promised it would not be exposed would be a hassle.

Or ... lock down the old "private" OMNI & start a new public one.



+1

It's both a strenghth and a weakness, and a lot of good participation (as well as participants) are lost because of this.

Originally Posted by MikeMpls

+1

This would fix two problems at once -- TalkBoard's relevance and bad moderators.

I was actually threatened by a moderator for bringing up moderation in a TalkBoard forum discussion. These days I rarely venture outside of one particular lounge thread; it's just not worth the hassle.