- guests shouldn't be able to view the forum
- people who want to join should have to be approved by an admin before they can join

much like in my proboards forum

or alternatively, default convos to a private forum and make the more open forums open registration? i dunno. are word association threads and random threads that embarrassing?

is this good as it is right now

it's ok

or we could make the whole forum private

but either way really