A "private" forum

Now, I have no real reason to post this, but feel free o shoot me down...Here it goes...Make the fourm "invisable" to non-registered users.Now, it's rare here-but when I had my own little clan forum, i had spammers in droves...So I forced the site under 2 changes.1.You must register to post-or even see boards for that matter (some would be visable-like rules)2.To join your submissions would be checked out by the admin.Now, prehaps you (Seph) can share this power to other trusted mods, so they can asses potential members....From what I noticed, some supposedly banned members (or just paranoya) keep jumping back and forth...This way-you can stop them in advance-check thier ip adress etc...It would make the site less friendly yes, but it may make potential users more careful about what they do...Plus...the ir chat can become more isolated-meaning if say for some strange reason-a banned user has a friend who also wants to bug us-can be steered away-and without the irchat they won't have any info on the site...Don't mind me-just some consipacy theroies I conjured up-my guess is that this is not in romU's best interest, but it may help protect somewhat...I'm aware that the site will need to be shut down-it took ages for the changes to be commited when I made those changes-and even then-I had to change back and forth just to make sure all but the "public" boards were shown...Thank you kindly.

Giroserik is one of them.:P.Obviously,a contradiction in his intro.

I haven't read the full post, but that would make the community of Romulation go down *as this is one of the most active forums I've put myself into*. There are sections that are also "hidden"(not for us regular members), and some require you to login to view it.

Re: A \\\"private\\\" forum

forte_amirul · #2Giroserik is one of them.:P.Obviously,a contradiction in his intro.

I was hoping not to mention names...for all we know he may be just a guy playing on the name...He may have read some post and thought "heh why not make fun of him"?Guilty until proven I say-but let's not discuss this here-that is for the mods to decided.
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I just had a look-most of it can still be viewed-too much I reckon...Prehaps leave the tutorial open and some stickies on forum rules...And technical help-those are what we need.
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One other suggestion-if we one day take this up...during next site update...Prehaps make it so guest-once they make a demo name-can post in but 1 section-technical help-as most users who are rarely here use that...It may force the newer users to post in correct topics-how many "help me out" post end up in fun and games sections?And having mods move them...Just a thought-it may hinder our user friendly approch-but it may heard the new users to stick to one place-I seen a few post the same topic many times just to get help.

Firstly, RomUlation is far too large for the admins to check every registration.Secondly, girogex has a dynamic IP address (thanks to AOL), so running an IP check wouldn't really help.Thirdly, having the forums viewable by unregistered users acts as a good showcase for the community, and can inspire such guests to register and start participating.

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I was trying to point this out. Thanks :)

Seph deems that this is not going to happen, we intentionally have it visible to guests, I think only the trading section is hidden to guests.

Fair enough-the wise seph has spoken.

In third person.

I'll just lock this.