Suggestion to bring in more members.

Chippiewill · 24-10-2009, 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by Robald

Same lol. I think it's a good idea to make guests register after a few threads viewed. As you say, it can't really have any negative effects on the forum.

Except from advertising revenues (Although I doubt that really covers the cost of keeping the server up for their page views) and 'exposure' which I doubt matters that much to be honest.

Mentor · 24-10-2009, 10:32 AM

Well, lots of forums that I go on have a restriction on viewing threads if you are not a registred member, e.g. if you were not registered on Habbox Forum, and you tried to view more than 3 threads, then a page would come up saying "You have reached your weekly supply of threads, this is because you aren't registred at Habbox Forum! Click here to register to see the thread you were trying to access".

Great idea - if the plans to prevent people from joining?

Why?

People Join forums for 2 main reasons:
1) someone asked them to (someone they know) - In this case preventing people reading topics is useless.
2) got linked or stumbled accross a thread, since the topic interested them, they registered to reply (this is the sole reason i join forums) - Since no one can read through the threads, next to no one in this category is likely to join.

So basically adding such a feature would stop around half of potental members ever registering, which taking in to account this group is the most likely to be active and stick around for a while, is quite a big problem.

Guests do no harm, they view ad's like everyone else, just becuse they dont reply is no reason to prevent them from viewing.

In my opinion its a foolish move even to concider trying to force users to register if they dont want to, all it odes is make the forum look desperte and put people off even more.
Bad, idea. Very bad idea.

On lowering the post requirements, maybe you have a point, 5 posts allows people to start useing the forum normally quicker - although i'm not aware of the volumes of spam posts and fake accounts that generally make the rounds so this to may not be appropite.

nvrspk4 · 24-10-2009, 08:40 PM

Originally Posted by Mentor

Great idea - if the plans to prevent people from joining?

Why?

People Join forums for 2 main reasons:
1) someone asked them to (someone they know) - In this case preventing people reading topics is useless.
2) got linked or stumbled accross a thread, since the topic interested them, they registered to reply (this is the sole reason i join forums) - Since no one can read through the threads, next to no one in this category is likely to join.

So basically adding such a feature would stop around half of potental members ever registering, which taking in to account this group is the most likely to be active and stick around for a while, is quite a big problem.

Guests do no harm, they view ad's like everyone else, just becuse they dont reply is no reason to prevent them from viewing.

In my opinion its a foolish move even to concider trying to force users to register if they dont want to, all it odes is make the forum look desperte and put people off even more.
Bad, idea. Very bad idea.

On lowering the post requirements, maybe you have a point, 5 posts allows people to start useing the forum normally quicker - although i'm not aware of the volumes of spam posts and fake accounts that generally make the rounds so this to may not be appropite.

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