This forum is private?

[Joe Butcher]

Why is it that sometimes when I click on a forum post I get a message that says "this forum is private" and it won't let me view the message?

These are not posts that would be in any areas that are restricted to Pro members, or at least I don't think so.

[Steve Babiak]

Originally posted by @Account Closed:

@Joshua Dorkin

I've seen this plenty myself. More often I see it within a thread of of a forum. Sometimes the entire thread goes private. When I see private I feel like I'm outside the "circle" and not sure why even when I pay for a membership. Maybe BP could change when a forum goes private to "deleted". Seems to be the choice of words BP uses that makes others feel the same.

But calling it "deleted" would not be accurate either, since the content has just been classified to be not viewable for whatever reason. When it happens to a post or a few within a thread, but the rest of the thread can be viewed, you would have found some violation of the BP forum rules within those posts that can no longer be seen; but the content has not been deleted from the BP server for any of those, just classified to be no longer viewable.