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Old July 18th, 2007, 11:52 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Currently, there are 700+ guests and only 20 members. It would look a lot better if those guests would register. (By making it so that guests cannot view the forum) Plus, they would help out the community more, for example, more people would be in technical support.

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Old July 19th, 2007, 12:05 AM     #2 (permalink)
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Currently, there are 700+ guests and only 20 members. It would look a lot better if those guests would register. (By making it so that guests cannot view the forum) Plus, they would help out the community more, for example, more people would be in technical support.

then explain how the hell you would expect someone to decide to join & register if they couldn't read what was on it & decide whether it was worth their effort...

It'd be like going into a car dealership & not being able to inspect the car, sit in it or even take it for a test drive, only option is to buy it & deal with it afterwards, if your unhappy with it, to bad...

a lot of people come to this site & others for help, there's thousands that simply just search & look up stuff, never posting, as others may have posted in the past for what they had questions about.

yeah its nice to see more registered members listed & not so many unregistered guests, but that kind of defeats the point of this tech forum, if the general public isn't allowed to view most of the posts...

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Old July 19th, 2007, 12:31 AM     #3 (permalink)
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Well I think some of that may be a good idea,

I kind of think they should make the imo community
Hidden from guests, some of the topics and posts get
Pretty scary, may make some people think forget this place,

Although I must also say that most people come here
Looking for tech support, so maybe there not looking at
The community forums,

I did not look at the community forum for the first six months anyway,
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Old July 19th, 2007, 12:39 AM     #4 (permalink)
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can always set it up so that the community forum doesn't show or have access unless registered, I'm on a half dozen other forums, where similar things are setup, over on one, there's a Babe Forum section, only registered members can see It if I remember right, on my gaming clans site, we have some sections that are only viewable by registered members, etc etc etc, something like that could be done, once their registered they can view all of the forum sections...
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Old July 19th, 2007, 12:57 AM     #5 (permalink)
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I think that's a horrible idea... I wouldn't mind if the community forum was hidden, but even that I see as rather pointless. If the tech forums are hidden, that would be downright counter productive.
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Old July 19th, 2007, 01:04 AM     #6 (permalink)
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Not a good idea, considering most of the guests are just looking up one thing.
Having more guests is a good thing, it shows your forum is popular and is answering questions.
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Old July 19th, 2007, 03:04 AM     #7 (permalink)
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Well, if that was the case, I defiantly would not have joined. Because I needed to look up an answer which I found not to be here so I created an account and asked.

Can you see how this would be pretty stupid? LOL


Of course you could obscure things too.

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Old July 19th, 2007, 03:38 AM     #8 (permalink)
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white text on white background & even reversed/backwards too LOL, nice
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Old July 19th, 2007, 03:49 AM     #9 (permalink)
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There are pros and cons here that I see.

I'm not sure, well I think that TechIMO has no problem with the capacity in handling tens of hundreds of registered people in here

Some guests, well, they come and register and they left. For good that is. I think this would waste the bandwidth of some sort. And even space.

The good side is, we will have a lot more registered members If they registered as a member and then left for good the next day, I would suggest their account should be canceled after 2-3 months later.
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Old July 19th, 2007, 03:51 AM     #10 (permalink)
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Correction, after 3-4 months later (because sometimes, I can't always be in here.. )
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