closed site to guests

[Ray]

too many guests have been coming and going over 1000+ a day and not alot of registering so i have closed site to guests ;) if u feel we should re open it just ask

[GT-40MarkIV]

No. I think that's a good choice. Racingzone is thriving and it is closed to Guests..I think??? Well anyway good choice.

[Ray]

we are placing some banners on sites and most guests just come and go absolutly not worth it atleast if they register they might take a second to say hello :D

[GT-40MarkIV]

Had the same problem with my site.....Everyone would come take a look leave and never come back. After like 3months of 1300 hits....I had 7members!!! 2 of which were asst. managers, and me the manager.!!!!

[Ray]

i will keep it open till the car comes out then its closed ;)

[hondafreak4eva]

Originally posted by tsxclub
i will keep it open till the car comes out then its closed ;)

i think you have enough intrest in this car that if people actually "find" the site they will register.. at least that was happened in my case.. i just didn't know about the exsistence of the site

[Ray]

you are right on, people have been registering on their own and site is growing maby some modorators and we are on a good track .

Btw Welcome to the site!!!

[hondafreak4eva]

Originally posted by tsxclub
maby some modorators and we are on a good track .


without a doubt.. i look forward to seeing this place grow! :)
and of course.. driving a TSX :D

[hondafreak4eva]

WOW
Right Now:
(appx 12:08 Friday March 21)
There are currently 31 members and 178 guests on the boards. | Most users ever online was 401 on 03-04-2003 at 07:23 PM.

178 people that should be signed in and posting?!?! What Do you Think? ;)

[Ray]

since site is open to guests they just read for now, ones people start buying the car more will probobly start to register and post :D

[rAiN]

how do you close site for guest?

[Ray]

Originally posted by rAiN
how do you close site for guest?
in the vb admin panel click modify user groups and edit unregisterd/not logged in.

[meauxdog]

Originally posted by GT-40MarkIV
No. I think that's a good choice. Racingzone is thriving and it is closed to Guests..I think??? Well anyway good choice.

RacingZone
Is holding it's own..
But would like to see more new members !

Meaux
:p :D :p

[rAiN]

close it!! close it!! close it!!

[Ray]

Originally posted by rAiN
close it!! close it!! close it!!
Too Soon to close it maby after 2000 members register :D

[larchmont]

Just discovered this old thread.

I'm glad you DIDN'T close it, even though it seemed like everybody was agreeing that it was a good idea.

I never would have gotten hooked on these forums if not that I could first visit for a while as a guest. Part of it was that I was totally new to the net and didn't feel that comfortable with it, and part of it was that I didn't feel "entitled" to be a member until I had the car. That second reason especially was silly, but lots of people might have their own reasons., whatever they may be.

And anyway, what's wrong with someone just visiting and not becoming a member??? I don't get what the problem is. It's not like you're losing out on dues, because there aren't any, and it's not like if someone becomes a member they're automatically going to start posting and coming here more often than if they were just a guest, or even that it's likely.

You might think they would, and of course I have every reason to think that you know better than I do. But, on another site which went through this (sorry to make another such reference, but it's relevant), it didn't seem to work that way. There were periods during which they didn't allow browsing unless you joined, and you know what happened? They got dozens of people joining every day, but THE GREAT, GREAT MAJORITY of them never posted -- zero posts. You could look it up, the data are there. It's still probably true that most of the people who join don't do any posts, but during the periods when you had to register in order to browse, it was a HUGE majority, like almost everybody. I don't see how it benefits a site to get more people to join if they don't participate, and (probably) never even came back.

My 1.5 cents: Unless there's a compelling reason to close something, keep it open.

I would add that in the current situation there may well be a lot of people from certain venues who would be hesitant about joining, at least right now, but who are very interested in browsing for info -- and, in due course, they may feel comfortable joining. I think this may partly account for the very large number of "guests" we've been having lately.

I think it's great that y'all have kept it open, and I think it would be good to keep it open.

[Whatchamacallit]

:sprint: Here's another vote to keep it open.

Closing the site may instantly bring in new members in the short term but leaving the site open will be better in the long run. It sparks more interest to those who doesn't want to register, which leads to more potential members in the future.

Although I myself usually don't register to forums unless it's closed, I like to get a feel for a site before registering and contributing to the forums.

[johnej]

If it was clossed I would just have ignored the site. I lurked for a while....

[larchmont]

Thanks, dudes. Of course I couldn't agree more.


BTW there are a couple of sites I could mention where they would have closed a thread like this before anybody except me had a chance to say anything. :D

[Ray]

The site will stay open to guests. :D