Why? It is often quite handy to sneak in and see if the newborn
site is not going into conflict with the one you moderate or to
give external voice in certain meta threads. Now it requires
either fake commitment (which leads to stuck/unfilled
commitments and thus slowing down new proposals) or using API
and/or private beta users to bypass the system (so the current
policy filters out almost exclusively harmless sneaks).  Why not
not? It is not harmful since there is not too many of us and we
are an aware users -- thus this won't alter the privateness of
private beta.  share|improve this question There are 200+
community moderators right now. –  Anna Lear Nov 16 '11 at 14:20
@AnnaLear Precisely. –  mbq Nov 16 '11 at 15:38 Sorry, let me
elaborate. I wouldn't call that "not too many of us". For a
brand new private beta site, that's potentially overwhelming. – 
Anna Lear Nov 16 '11 at 15:40 Well, this is why it is "not too
many" not "few" -- it is nothing in comparison to whole SE
audience, thus it does not chang