I am trying a change where you have to be logged in to view the Off-Topics forum.

In other words Guests (not logged in) to the forum will not be able to see that forum at all.

It's the only way I know of to block the search engines from picking up posts in that forum. I have read where having unrelated topics in a specialized forum like fishing can hinder showing search results for that site.

There may be another way but I am not aware of it at time. Looking into it.

If anybody knows more about or has any thoughts, let me know.