The secret forum was just for people we knew well enough to know they weren't in it to make max profit, and actually wanted to keep the shoe if they only got one pair. It's one thing to make a bit of profit off additional pairs, try to bring down the cost of your own, it's another to try to get the most you possibly can, and rape those trying to actually wear them.
I got a FSR of Yeezy 1's back in 09 and I helped several NTers get them for less than resell value, all while making enough to make mine damn near close to free.
In the end, the secret forum didn't help everyone, but it was helpful, and also filtered out the useless crap here on NT (like trolls trying to tell us the shoe is just hype, and all their dumb little theories ad broad generalizations about people who like the shoe).
You may be in it for the right reasons, but don't be offended, in the end it's to be kept tight with those who we def know how they do, and share useful info between us without it being used against us to try to charge rape. If we open it up to any and every body who swears they are in it for the right reasons, it's inevitable to be exploited.