Unregistered Posting?

[Alabaster.j.cat]

Has this always been avaliable? I have only recently noticed a heavy amounts of it. Is there a way to disable it? I think if there is it will do a service to BMGf, because it could increase the numbers, if people want to post they should have to join. Just random thoughts.

 

[Zhen Lin]

It has not always been on.

The odd thing is, they thought it would increase numbers to turn it on.

 

[Archaic]

And it has. If not membership numbers, then certainly activity.

And if there's an abusive anon user, we can always track their IP if they're a registered user trying to hide themselves anyway.

 

[Alabaster.j.cat]

Okay, well thanks for the answers. I could see how activity > membership. Anyway thanks again.

 

[Kater]

i have noticed a increase in number of unregistered posts.

 

[~AntonioBIO~]

The problem is that new members take advantage of Guests being able to post, because they don't know (or might not know) that you can see their IP's. (This is just my opinion.)

 

[Misty]

We had like 80 guests on at one point today...

 

[Kasumi]

Weren't they just google or yahoo spiders? Most of the guests are usually those search bots.

 

[Archaic]

Our board software is setup so as to disregard search engine spiders from guest counts, though you can still view them in "Who's Online". If the forums say there's 80 guests, there's 80 guests.

 

[Fig]

Unfortunately untrue.

I just counted - the board said 26 guests, and the "Who's online" page had 6 guests and 20 or so spiders.

 

[Kasumi]

By the way, I must state again that I'm against unregistered posting. I'd rather have a few dedicated members on the forums than a buch of unregistered members who don't take the effort to be there the whole time and most likely post only once in their life here.

 

[Pie]

I think it has some advantages - the increased activity, as noted, and also because certain members like Andromache wouldn't be able to contact us and let us know of an inability to register. Still, there are times where it would be a lot easier to talk with a registered user than a guest...

 

[Archaic]

Unfortunately untrue.

I just counted - the board said 26 guests, and the "Who's online" page had 6 guests and 20 or so spiders.

Really? I didn't think I'd disabled that plugin. Oo;