Wow, this is a new restriction. I'm now not allowed to even view or read the Private Zone while logged in.
Also, just got a reply to the message I sent to one of the SBR programmers in CR. The slowdowns and issues some of us seem to be having in just loading the SBR site is a by-product of John's "commandeering" two of the programmers to rewrite the posting permissions table for the forum. He's adding in all sorts of restrictions to the back-end for the Mods, but Bill only let him use the two most junior programmers to accomplish it. They don't know how to optimize the database functions that are being added, so now anytime those of us that John is inventing new ways in which to restrict try to load a page, it literally takes 30+ seconds for the posting permissions table to recode the page so that it doesn't allow us to do a lot of stuff. Since it only affects the people who have entries under the new restrictions, Bill doesn't care whether it gets cleaned up or not. Looks like the shitty performance is here to stay for some of us.
I'm glad to know that John is filled with so much hate for some of us that he'll reassign his own staff to tasks that don't have anything to do with the bottom line. I like the fact that we're that much in his head.