Why is the “Boo!” subforum private? 
Read the announcement:
Ok, thank you,.
Instead of having these temporary fora disappear after a few weeks, is there any way they could be kept up as locked archives? That way if there’s any remarkable threads, they won’t be lost in the ether once their time is up.
Yes, we just lock them, we don’t disappear them. We disappear very little stuff actually, we usually just move things out of view. Man, you should see the attic in the mod wing.
It’s kind of like the Addams family’s living room. Weird stuff in there.
Thanks for starting this thread, I was confused too. And now I’m a member! Thanks a lot for discounting it 
My thread is the only one in there and I can’t read it!
Well, yeah, but couldn’t they stay visible to all once they’re archived? Like a special sub-section of archived fora?
I think that’s the plan, but would want Tuba Diva to confirm. She’s out in meatspace today, but she should be able to answer soon.
No, actually, there are 19 threads in there so far – and you can either join this weekend at the discount rate, or wait until Tuesday.
Ah, thanks! And mmmm…meatspace.
How did you post there if you can’t access the forum?
Joe
It was a Halloween thread so it was moved there by a moderator.
Wait…that’s retarded. I’m fine with the concept of having an exclusive forum, but topics created outside it should not be moved until the forum is unlocked. In effective, its extortion, if even temporary. Unless I’ve misunderstood, I strongly do not approve of this action.
Hey, they’ve just gone pay-per-view is all: for a mere TEN BUCKS you get EXCLUSIVE ACCESS to ALL-NEW CONTENT. That’s USER GENERATED! And mostly some existing shit to pad it out, but EXCLUSIVE PREMIUM GOLD BUY NOW SPECIAL LIMITED TIME ONLY HOW MUCH WOULD YOU PAY ELEVENTY!!!
You know what’s funny? This means that some people can’t read the threads that they themselves created. Like MeanOldLady’s thread, here. And Bosstrain’s thread here. And purplehorseshoe’s thread here. And miss elizabeth’s thread here. And Hello Again’s thread here.
And some of these threads don’t have anything to do with Halloween, like Bosstrain’s “What have they done with Vampires?!!”, which isn’t about Halloween or costumes or anything. So a guy who created a thread in a non-exclusive forum now finds it in a place he can’t access and he wasn’t even talking about the topic of that exclusive forum to begin with.
Yeah, that’s pretty fucked up.
Joe
And it was started before the exclusive forum even existed.
I’m sure that that was an oversight. They probably shouldn’t have moved already existing threads.
Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help! Help! I’m being repressed! 