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The OP was lumping together MS and churning and hacking and "etc".

I can't answer for sure, but the main problem with MS these days (due to things like the PO no longer accepting Visa/MC gift cards for MOs and more and more Walmart not working for that either) is that what works may depend on where you are as much as what you know. So if people in this ciommunity are not willing to share their locations publicly, that alone is too secretive now that the many of the same gift card -> cash techniques no longer work nationwide.

The other example I can think of that the OP was referring to about things being secretive on FT is with churning, not with MS. For some cards, every time a link is made public, it dies within days, so links for some cards are now distributed only through PM, but you have to keep up with posts in the thread about the card you're interested in just to know who to PM. In that case, it's secretive to keep it away from banks who might be looking around FT for links they don't want the public to have access to and shutting them down if they find them in a wikipost.