Sol, can you please summarize for everyone what the difference is between group access, display, and visible settings, and how to set each of them so that our forum posts are not accessible to everyone on the Internet.
Right now, the Medieval Fantasy Magic group (run by Amy) is preparing to go completely dark to keep our forum posts private within the TNBW site. Unfortunately, that will mean anyone who likes to read forum posts within the group before joining and posting their work or forum comments there will no longer be able to do so. They won't even know it exists. We'll become even more siloed than we already are.
This is a big deal! Everything we've ever said in any thread on this site is being laid bare for the whole Internet to see. Fat chance ever getting a book publishing deal if every uncensored moment about our writing and participation in these groups is visible to the whole world, including book spoilers and casual messgaes in any of the forums we've used to date.
Book publishers won't touch us because of the potential PR disaster of even one of our comments being taken out of context.
How come a book publishing site that goes to great length to protect the written books, stories, poems, etc., allows everything else we say to be read by non-members of the site. The forum posts are part of the writing process and should be treated just like the written work.
Please let us know how to handle this because, right now, there are quite a few power users of your site scrambling to figure out how to handle this situation and yet still allow for as much collaboration with others on the site to continue.
Thanks.
Dirk
