Sadly, it is apparent many members in this thread have not read The Rules (linked in my signature).
It is incumbent on all members to familiarize themselves with the Terms of Service (aka The Rules) they agree to abide by when being accepted as a member at Websleuths.
In The Rules, you will see that soliciting or alluding to private chat is a violation of Websleuths TOS. It's like whispering in someone's ear or hinting that "i know something you don't know".
When a Mod or Admin says you can discuss some things in private conversation, that does NOT give licence to members to start soliciting others on the public thread or for members to be posting "me too, me too" types of posts, basically dragging an entire discussion into private chat. Websleuths does not exist as a personal platform of discussion to totally override the main thread.
There are hundreds of guests who are also interested in this discussion and they will now have the impression that you'll just go and talk rumors and off limits stuff among yourselves rather than participating on the main discussion thread.
Websleuths is credible for a reason ... because members are not interested in discussing gossip, rumors, hearsay, accusations and wild speculation privately or publicly, based on no MSM, no LE.