Private board?

[Jessika]

Also, how about the idea of having to know your regular PT username and password AND a special password only known by trusted pt people so that they can see the "special" parts of a form?

This was confusing at first, but I think I understand what you're saying now -- meaning, a password would be required to have access to the private forum? That's not such a bad suggestion. But I know with vBulletin you can create "groups", and allow certain groups certain access to places, permissions, etc. I think that would be the best option in this case, Karen could hand-pick and manually allow people access, etc, regardless of how many posts they have or how long they have been a member.

[Karen]

I don't really see a need for a private forum, as we do have Private Messages. Anything you want to share with just a few members you can "group PM" people, 5 at a time, at your own discretion, and then no one could see it but those people. That's more secure than a forum.