'Hidden' Forums...

e-Seeker · Oct 11, 2002, 06:44 PM

...are there any on DH.net or not?

id 1-5?

...id=5 - 'Non-Driver Related' (empty)? hmm...

digitalwanderer · Oct 11, 2002, 08:03 PM

Not at all, I don't have a problem seeing any of the private moderator forums.

e-Seeker · Oct 11, 2002, 08:35 PM

Damn you! Curse you!

Probably some twisted material in those Forums... Kinky, perverted games you all play... ehh...

Shaith · Oct 12, 2002, 01:46 AM

well, duh!

~~shai~~ · Oct 12, 2002, 08:00 AM

well it is secret

e-Seeker · Oct 12, 2002, 09:17 AM

Care to let me in on this secret... Well, just let me in, I won't tell

digitalwanderer · Oct 12, 2002, 09:56 AM

...we just sit around and make fun of all our regular members behind their backs and laugh & laugh & laugh!

Seriously, we really don't use 'em much. We just use them to post site information/policy debates/such-n-like where we can all talk about issues of the site that we don't really want to talk about on the general boards. (Icky finance stuff, upcoming site promotions, how to deal with the flack from the manufacturers who have their lawyers send us letters, and stuff like that.)

Most of the mods conversations happen on the main boards, we just use the private forums for stuff we don't feel is appropo to go public quite yet but we need the mods to know about. (It's a VERY useful thing considering our mods are pretty much evenly distributed across the face of the globe, we're very international here and I think that's a GREAT thing.

)

So a couple of the forums we keep private just to communicate amongst the mods & administrators. I don't know of ANY forum that doesn't have them, but I can honestly tell you that DH's private forums are the least used of any site I mod at. All the mods/admins try and keep most of our conversations out on the general boards and we try to avoid just using the private forums to chat, we have much more fun chatting in public where anyone can kick in their .02.

Hope that satisfies your curiousity, 'cause it's about all I can give you. Sorry to be exclusionary in this regards, but we kind of have to ta keep the site running as well as it does.

e-Seeker · Oct 12, 2002, 10:01 AM

You could say that satisfies my curiostiy... Thank you for your reply!

~~shai~~ · Oct 12, 2002, 11:04 AM

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Originally posted by digitalwanderer
...we just sit around and make fun of all our regular members behind their backs and laugh & laugh & laugh!

well damm you

lol

e-Seeker · Oct 12, 2002, 02:57 PM

Why bother, they do it this way (the regular way), or the other - backstabin' lowlife's...

digitalwanderer · Oct 12, 2002, 04:18 PM

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Originally posted by dEykeé
Why bother, they do it this way (the regular way), or the other - backstabin' lowlife's...

Yeah, but don't we get some points for at least making fun of our members right up front and not sneaky chatting about you behind your backs?

e-Seeker · Oct 12, 2002, 06:46 PM

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Originally posted by digitalwanderer
Yeah, but don't we get some points for at least making fun of our members right up front and not sneaky chatting about you behind your backs?

Well, pick ONE and you'll get some points... Either make fun of the members in public or hidden where you belong..

Andrew275 · Oct 13, 2002, 10:46 AM

People always think there must be something exciting in every forum's moderator forum. There's not.

e-Seeker · Oct 13, 2002, 11:47 AM

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Originally posted by Andrew275
People always think there must be something exciting in every forum's moderator forum. There's not.

Admins and Mods always say that.

UberLord · Oct 13, 2002, 11:50 AM

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Originally posted by dEykeé
Admins and Mods always say that.

Members always claim that there's something exciting in there

It's a vicious never ending circle

e-Seeker · Oct 13, 2002, 12:31 PM

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Originally posted by UberLord
Members always claim that there's something exciting in there

It's a vicious never ending circle

What you don't know about makes it look like it's exciting... or frightening...

Andrew275 · Oct 14, 2002, 03:58 PM

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Originally posted by dEykeé
What you don't know about makes it look like it's exciting... or frightening...

Exactly. If you got in, you might be amused for 5 minutes.

e-Seeker · Oct 14, 2002, 04:07 PM

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Originally posted by Andrew275
Exactly. If you got in, you might be amused for 5 minutes.

Hell, I think we all want to be a part of something great, well - a greater part of something even so great... So what's only 5 min. compared to that? ..you know what I mean..

nJoy! (pass it on to the 'living shadows' in there!)

Ryoko · Oct 16, 2002, 03:36 PM

well, let's put it this way. at nvnews, when i resigned my moderator position, i lost access to nvnews' mod forum (there is only 1 there). since then, i have only hacked it once, and found nothing of interest. stuff like "this member is causing a problem, please set him straight" kinda stuff.