How would people know this is a public forum? I couldn't tell the first time. The Terms of Service only says you can make your email address private.. nothing about anything being publicly posted.
OK, if you stumbled upon Techspot simply browsing, or even with a search, and when you got there you could read everything that was posted, WITHOUT joining, or having a super duper double secret military intelligence browser and an FBI search warrant, how on earth could you mistake Techspot for anything other than a public forum?
The fact of the matter is, even a reasonably high functioning ***** would know immediately that this is a public forum.
As to the rest of your pretty much incoherant drivel, (which I found necessary to delete in order to maintain my own trend of thought), I take it you're indignant about something that was said to somebody else.
So let's recap, you can read every word on a web page that you visit, yet you can't recognize that this information is in the public domain, and you're upset in the third person, because of something somebody in the second person, said to someone in the first person, is that correct?
It's a pity they don't issue college degrees in tediousness or obliviousness.