[Adrian]

I like Tyler's comments about functionality as a premise for consideration of creating a private forum or not. It seems a pretty balanced and logical way of thinking. At the same time part of the joy of being on DB is the vast variety of freediving experience and knowledge brought onboard by all the different people and cultures represented and personally I prefer to see all forums here open for all members. Imagine if one day I want to go to Canada, I have a mine of information right here at my fingertips.

I think that jpplay simply would like to have serious posters so that one would not have to wade through the useless posts that pop up once in a while, not for exclusion, but rather efficiency.

Remember that if there is a person who is consistent in contributing rather useless posts, one can always add them to the "ignore" list, making all that user's posts invisible to you.