[Darkwaltz4]

okay, only in your dorm, (if the admin public option is turned off) then only members of your dorm can post in threads that you create. however, to have a thread which allows the rest of the forum to post in it, you can set 1 thread to 'Public' which becomes a special thread which everyone can post in. (this was something many people wanted during my experience of manual dorm-doing, and the guestroom function is an example of me hijacking the sticky system :-p)

you get listed as members in the forum description. if those are turned off, you wont see the listed members obviously. other than forum listings, membership is invisible, although your dorm will appear as unlocked in the dorm listing. im not sure why it isnt pming. ill look at it right now. and i spent an hour crunching the entirety of private.php into 7 lines of code :-p and they all work on my test forum and mainsite forum btw.