As of this morning the entire Off Topic forum is now visible only to registered, approved members of the site.
Visitors, unconfirmed registrants, banned users, etc. will not be able to see, post, nor search the OT forum.
This still differs from the Members Only forum as any new member will have total access to OT immediately, whereas they will not have access to Members only until they reach a predetermined number of posts.
The goal was to provide a higher degree of privacy in our OT discussions while keeping any changes as seamless as possible for the membership.
We are confident this adjustment will achieve those goals.
Thanks as always for the support.