Private forums are set up within the main forum so that members can have seroius discussions without the threads being hijacked or filled with meaningless waffle by the ballards and madabouts :wink: .
Anyone can ask for a prvate forum to be set up, then they can be responsible for the control over that forum. I do not control the access rights to the private forums that is up to the person who requested the forum to be set up.
Private forums can be set up which are hidden from other members (and there are some on here). They can be open,
or hidden groups set up as public, private, restricted etc.