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I would agree that its a secret forum, but with the caveat that its just a private forum. Its a secret kept from everyone who is not in the group, but gaining access to the group means it would no longer be a secret to you.
Your reasoning that its a secret forum and not just another private group is based on the difference between the URLs. Well, even though you can't view private forums with a URL that does not include the "fanclub" moniker, I don't think that was always the case. I seem to remember someone coming up with a way to view them via a standard URL with a forum ID number. Perhaps the webteam has since changed those parameters, or perhaps I'm just making it all up.
I do know that this very forum used to be a private forum, belonging to the Chapter Founders. It was made a public forum when the userbase here became too big for a single group to handle all the website issues. Also, you could only get into the Chapter Founders if you had created a chapter, and shown the CF admins and big wigs that you were actually interested in running a private chapter. Making it go public just made sense.
You can also thank that eventuality for stosh being your first humble moderator.