# Forum discovery! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 5, 2001, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-discovery/91509 "2001-11-05T01:37:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f05b48/32.png) [@Roger\_the\_Shrubber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roger_the_Shrubber)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-discovery/91509/1 "2001-11-05T01:37:59Z")
I was meesing around and saw that forums had forumid’s of 1-13… but there aren’t that many! So I sleuthingly (tee-hee! i love making up words) manually entered forumid’s 9, 10, and 11–they were labeled ARCHIVES, and only had two or three posts in them. Weird! Has this been covered before? Those forums don’t seem to accept new posts. Now, anything over those get an error message–but 15 gets a different one than the rest. It says that I may not have the proper permission to access it–could this be the clique’s Secret Forum?? =ominous music= Anybody know what’s really going on? ---
**Author:** ![Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nefarious_chipmunk/32/1045_2.png) [@Nefarious\_Chipmunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nefarious_Chipmunk)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-discovery/91509/2 "2001-11-05T01:39:41Z")
Forum number 15, I believe, is the Moderator’s Forum. It is basically where they talk about board issues, etc. They are teh only ones that can get in there. ---
**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-discovery/91509/3 "2001-11-05T01:40:31Z")
If they wanted a secret forum, they would have given it a large random number like 98172. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-discovery/91509/4 "2001-11-05T01:54:38Z")
This really isn’t new news to those that have been around for awhile. It’s just sort of a surprise, though, to find it. ---
**Author:** ![Ell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@Ell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ell)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/forum-discovery/91509/5 "2001-11-05T06:51:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JellyDonut \* > \*\*If they wanted a secret forum, they would have given it a large random number like 98172. \*\* Ah foiled! Now I have to change the number for my world domination planning forum.