137 guests

[Jenks]

Re: 137 guests

Anyway what difference does 137 guests make? If they were interested in communicating they would've posted ...

^This. NBD.

I browse without logging in all the time.

[Rave Lizard]

Re: 137 guests

Moderation approval applies to registered users, so they wouldn't count as guests?

Yes but when posts take a long time to be approved the conversation becomes disjointed. You may find some of them guests are registerd users, but just don't bother loggin in because the approval takes too long.

[sbando]

Re: 137 guests

The amount of pre-approved posts should go back to 5 or 10.

[floridaorange]

Re: 137 guests

The approval thing is kind strange I agree. Makes more sense to moderate posts - give warnings to members and then ban if need be, but waiting for approval is a major deterrent I would think from joining in.

[sbando]

Re: 137 guests

As a forum admin myself I can tell you it's absolutely needed as an anti-spam, anti-bot filter. In our case is an anti-Chunky measure and I suspect the number of moderated posts is higher.

[Rave Lizard]

Re: 137 guests

What's an anti-chunky measure?

[sbando]

Re: 137 guests

Chunky is a former user and mod, he got banned but came back with dozens of aliases.

[DIDI]

Re: 137 guests

^^ And a HUGE contributor !!

[floridaorange]

Re: 137 guests

Here's a crazy idea, and I'm just spitballing here, but how about we trade Didi for Chunky?

[sbando]

Re: 137 guests

^^ And a HUGE contributor !!

I was just explaining why the strict rules.

[dusk]

Re: 137 guests

Sometimes, if I am just reading/catching up on threads, I'm still a guest on the boards, as I don't have the auto-login feature enabled. However if I feel the need to contribute then... I log in and post. So some of the guests may be members just browsing the various sections. Again it is the quality not quantity of posts that matter.

[DIDI]

Re: 137 guests

I was just explaining why the strict rules.

Just adding to that