I have no way of knowing, given the Salt River hidden forum. What I've seen is that an anti-freep thread in the open forum over there was deleted within minutes of it being linked from FR. Someone messed up and did the anti-freeping in the open forum.
If y'all want a separate forum, that's your business. Just don't pretend that a hidden sub-forum isn't an indication of anti-freeping, coupled with evidence posted here and the attitudes of a fair number of the new members over there that they expressed on FR prior to going over there - and that are still expressed now.
Then stop trying to make it your business.
Just don't pretend that a hidden sub-forum isn't an indication of anti-freeping
Did it occur to you that maybe the other site has trolls as well (as should be obvious from Fierce Allegiance's posts above) and maybe they have a need to remove things that don't truly represent their site from public viewing as well? You know, like on FR when you hit abuse asking the mods to remove something.
It's in the early stages. Aren't they allowed to discuss how they want to run the site privately without inteference from people who are already trying to shut them down?
Before you go bashing another site, perhaps you should go take a look for yourself. As for openness, do you see everything that goes on here? Are moderators AFers because you can't see what they discuss behind closed doors?