Guest Access

[Sam1]

Do you allow guests to post on your forum? Why or Why not and How do you do it/ what restrictions are in place?

 

[Jason1]

I don't do it , as i felt every user should be part of the site for the sites growth.

 

[Rihtar]

I never give guests ability to post on a forum. Reason for this is fairly obvious, spam. I don't want to deal with it on regular basis, because I'm too lazy to delete bunch of spam threads and my demo site is a proof of that. :laugh:

So I try to prevent it in the first place and that's why I don't allow guests to post, because most guest would spam, FACT.

 

[JLogan]

Oh hell no. That's just asking for spam!

 

[Jordan]

Never would I allow that lol. I could not imagine the spam that would happen. Just aviod it all and only allow registered users. It only takes a couple seconds to register so why not.

 

[xpl0iter]

I would never do that too! In a world without spam, I shall do this!

 

[Martee]

 

[ford1001]

Never have and never will. Allows for too much spam to slip through the cracks and when the staff isn't online gives the site a bad name. I don't even let guests see all boards of the forum, usually only the ones to do with the site genre itself,

 

[JLogan]

Never have and never will. Allows for too much spam to slip through the cracks and when the staff isn't online gives the site a bad name. I don't even let guests see all boards of the forum, usually only the ones to do with the site genre itself,

I usually let guests see all the forum sections besides VIP and staff. But I will never allow guests to post on a forum, its just a terrible idea that could lead to too much spam.

 

[ford1001]

I usually let guests see all the forum sections besides VIP and staff. But I will never allow guests to post on a forum, its just a terrible idea that could lead to too much spam.

I just don't see why they need to see and read topics about the site itself and it's members.

 

[Jordan]

I usually let guests see all the forum sections besides VIP and staff. But I will never allow guests to post on a forum, its just a terrible idea that could lead to too much spam.

Exactly, and if you can link me 1 forum that allows this, and does not have a single post of spam, I will gladly give away $1 million. (ok not really).

I find it SOO hard to believe why someone would think this is a good idea in any way, shape, or form. it boggles my mind and makes me go nuts. As one webmaster to the next, just don't allow it.

 

[tunescool]

i allow guests to post, i have alot of return visitors that have something to say. its never been spam, the only spam ive ever got has been people who join

 

[Martee]

^ free one million dollars for tunescool Jordan

I just don't see why they need to see and read topics about the site itself and it's members.

Why not restrict the more 'personal' posts of your forum so to speak and allow them to read the actual niche content on your site? I wouldn't see the point in restricing them full stop imo, how else would I know what sort of content you would offer me? Isn't there like a read X amount of pages as a guest before locking the forum mod for IPB anyway?

 

[ford1001]

^ free one million dollars for tunescool Jordan



Why not restrict the more 'personal' posts of your forum so to speak and allow them to read the actual niche content on your site? I wouldn't see the point in restricing them full stop imo, how else would I know what sort of content you would offer me? Isn't there like a read X amount of pages as a guest before locking the forum mod for IPB anyway?

I allow them to read the posts about gaming and that, which is the site niche, but not about site news, introductions etc.

 

[cuckookill]

Do you allow guests to post on your forum? Why or Why not and How do you do it/ what restrictions are in place?

I allow guest posts because my site focuses on conspiracies and the people that post are paranoid to begin with.

 

[Shortie]

This was something we attempted a little while back on the forum I run now and at first it seemed like a good idea, we was getting guests using it for the reasons we had made it available, however after a little while we started to get problems from genuine guests who wanted to just cause trouble so we decided to scrap it and only allow the contact us option to be available for guests who where having problems.

 

[psychadelicbird]

I think either way you will get spam regardless. If you require sign-up to view certain areas of the forum, or as you say to post comments then you're really asking for people to make accounts just to ask one or two questions and then probably leave.

I think instead of saying absolutely no posting, limit the posting for guests to say 10 posts or something. That should be plenty to ask all the queries they have about your site.