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LadyMinion
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Posts: 14
Location: UK
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Most of my forums are viewable to guests. The ones that aren't are that way for the comfort of my registered members. They include artwork and fiction submission sections, and personal talk. Just general stuff that members would prefer anonymous viewers not to see.
Plus, I keep my gallery inacessible to guests.
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Nick
Joined: 09 Sep 2005
Posts: 775
Location: Next to the stereo
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| Posted: 1/21/2006, 8:53 pm Post subject: |
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All of mine are completely viewable to guests (not postable of course) with the exception of any mod/admin forums on the board. I'm thinking about making one board viewable only to registered members though...
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Alan
Joined: 11 Dec 2005
Posts: 53
Location: Ireland
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| Posted: 1/22/2006, 10:11 am Post subject: |
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The only forum thats only viewable to registered members on my site is the suggestions forum. In my opinion, if your not part of the community, then you have no say on how it should be improved. I don't even allow guests to see suggestions. Never know who might steal em (Although in my opinion, theres no such thing as an original idea on the internet).
EDIT: After reading some of the posts above my own, I have recently opened the general board to guest posting and also created a member only board. At least now theres the privacy area. I'm not sure how they will work together, in my opinion, they will clash. :S
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Mercury
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Posts: 184
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| Posted: 3/28/2006, 4:29 am Post subject: |
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All forums except the one for staff are viewable to guests. My experience and input read at other forums suggests that a majority are turned away from having the forums hidden to them. People want to see what your community has to offer, and hiding your forums is an unnesessary obstacle. I'm generalizing, of course. Some forums may have a good reason to hide their forum based on what the subject is about and what type of audience they wish to attract. However, you should at least do something like open a forum with information on why they should join, what awaits them upon registration, etc. Or perhaps you can have that info in place of the description of a forum that is only visible to guests detailing these same points. This would serve to lessen the negative impact of hiding all your forums to guests.
I put this differently at another forum:
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| At The Infinity Program, guests can view all the forums and they can even post in one of them for questions, concerns, etc (if they would rather that than the contact form in the menu). Not allowing guests to at least be given information on what awaits them upon registration will turn away too many of them, but even putting up some information on what awaits them while keeping the forums hidden will drive away much more than having all your forums viewable would -- and I don't know of a good reason to hide them. People join a forum to be part of a community. They want to see if there'd be a community awaiting them, or if they'd have to take part in getting one going. They also want to know what kind of community awaits them, or, in other words, the culture. Not allowing them to view will just make them say to themselves something along the lines of, "Feh, I'm not going to take my time to register just to see what this place has to offer", and leave. |
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