It's not exactly private either - the threads and posts can be seen by premium members or those who have submitted articles.

I'm not a big board admin by any stretch of the imagination, but some of the information regarding optimisation etc is useful. I really don't understand all this secrecy that people seem to feel is approprate.

I mean if you don't want people to find out what you are posting, then you have to ask yourself if you should be posting the information on the internet at all with all the associated security risks that it entails. A secret is only a secret if you don't tell anyone :).

/useless comment over :D.

It's about a whole number of things - site security issues (that can be used against you), site ideas that may be used by competitors are just two to begin with. Anyway the reasons are not the point of this thread - the thread is basically asking big-boards admins what they would prefer.

I know non-big-boards would probably prefer the section not to be private and I appreciate that, but like I said, I'd like to know what other big-board admins think.

While you may post a question requesting a reply only from the specific members that you want to hear from (big-board admins)... you are still going to get responses from anyone else here who wishes to make a comment of their own, like it or not.

If you're not willing to disregard the feedback you don't want, maybe you should make arrangements for a moderator to restrict or censor this thread.

lets limit media hacks to media boards, journal hacks and tips only for blog related sites, dark skins only for death metal sites and so on.. great idea..
how small board admin could help a big fish.. ? ;)

That's exactly what I was going to say.
My forum has ~200'000 posts, but tweaking tips are always welcome..

Maybe just restricted to vbulletin license holders, that would be cool.


I mean, if you have a big board, you need to have a license, and if you dont have one license, why do you want to know how to run and/or discuss subjects about running/administrating big boards?


Well, you said big boards are only those who qualify into the 500.000 posts, I dont see why we should only call big boards those who some ranking site say they should be big! Doesnt make any sense. Besides, Big-Boards.com has nothing to do with Jelsoft

I don't see a reason to keep it hidden and I have a few very large forums (I don't really like the term big boards any more!). People are always trying to create private clubs to keep people out -- IE lets not give away our "secrets". The whole idea of vb.org is to share. Now if it was a security discussion section, I could see limiting it to vb owners only.

-vissa

I don't see how it can hurt if the little guys can see,, but not post ;)

If the focus of this section is to cover feature enhancements, server tweaks, and other things specifically related to the vBulletin software performance, then keep it open...

if the focus of the section will branch out into financial/member goals, then it should be private.