Confirmed Owner's forum?

The PRIVATE threads on the Tesla Forum, though designated as such by the key, no longer are private. Non-owners cannot make a post private but everyone can see the private threads. This has been the situation for a few months, now.

How would TMC confirm that someone is an owner? Tesla can easily do so, since your login to the site provides that information. TMC has no access to that database.

eco5280 said:

Tesla is a small young company and....

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Founded in 2003, market cap today is approx $25bn. Not sure I agree with your description.

eco5280 said:

Can I point you to the recent "Why do people have Copyright notices in their signatures" thread to why people might not want the public privy to our dirty laundry? Tesla is a small young company and I don't want to hurt it. But I do want to ask other owners questions that could damage the company.

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If you read the thread, you'll see the issue was cherry picking and having quotes taken out of context.

Not at all, @eco5280. This was an idea that the TMC mods have pondered. @bonnie gave the best reason we haven't acted, which is that we've got no straightforward way to verify ownership. Remember, TMC is strictly a volunteer organization, so even the reasonable idea of independent verification with a fee would prove challenging for us to implement and, I suspect, would result in only a tiny minority of Tesla owners bothering to register, which would greatly diminish the usefulness of an owners-only area of the forum.

eco5280 said:

OK. Just an idea to improve the forum. Glad to see everyone's so open-minded to new ideas. I guess I'm an idiot.

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I don't think anyone implied that you were an idiot (interesting, that's not a censored **** word).
There are practical issues with this. Right now I am not a Tesla owner. I traded my old one in a couple of weeks ago and am anxiously waiting for the new one. Am I allowed in?
What about someone who sold theirs for good because they hated they car (hypothetically speaking, I guess)?
And on the flip side, what's the value? I think we are the strongest advocates for Tesla - and we are best doing that by challenging the company to get better. Read all the threads about the issues with .167, AWD models and range mode...
So I think while the idea has potential merit, there are too many issues policing and implementing it, and not enough benefit to justify the effort.