Member to Guest rates

[Chippiewill]

This has been brought up a lot in the past and mostly with heated discussion.

However I found within the past few years that the ratio of Members to Guests on this forum has gone from more members than guests, to equal to more guests and now to a point where there are five times more guests viewing the forums than there are members. I'm not suggesting blocking access without logging in after x posts, some people like to watch the forum without joining, but, something can be said for being a bit more insistent on them joining.

I would suggest the following:

- "Second Post in a Thread" join the forum advertising
- Every ten/twenty pages redirect them to a page asking them if they'd want to join
- Rewrite the guest welcome banner so that it talks about stuff like competitions and prizes first.
- Fix how the layout looks in IE, there are some minor bugs in places that may be off-putting to guests who are more likely to be using IE.

Possibly some other stuff. It would be interesting to see the statistics on how many pages the average guest views in a session.

[The Don]

Apparently the amount of guests you see browsing the forum is inaccurate

[brandon]

Apparently the amount of guests you see browsing the forum is inaccurate

Yeah I think the number is greatly enhanced by things like Google Spiders.

[scottish]

Never understood why habbox don't use that addon so users can view 5 post then are forced to sign up if they wish to view further.

[Stephen]

any forum I want to view a thread on with that addon enabled just makes me ragequit the page instead of joining

[scottish]

Theres not much benefit of having people view your forums if they have no intention of joining

Unless they're after maximizing advert money + traffic

And I'm sure majority of the time people will register to the site, and ultimately put more contribution into the community rather than watching it.

[Inseriousity.]

any forum I want to view a thread on with that addon enabled just makes me ragequit the page instead of joining

that was same for me when ch did the same thing.

[Mathew]

I signed up to CH after they told me I couldn't view any more. I'm sure there are more people like that than those who click off.

[Alex3213]

any forum I want to view a thread on with that addon enabled just makes me ragequit the page instead of joining

Which is why I've never signed up to Club Habbo and another forum which I can't remember.

[Chippiewill]

Never understood why habbox don't use that addon so users can view 5 post then are forced to sign up if they wish to view further.

Nvrspk4 has been heavily blocking the idea since it arose, and for good reason. The only reason he joined this forum was because of a friend who just viewed the forum.

Yeah I think the number is greatly enhanced by things like Google Spiders.

There aren't that many spiders and they don't spend all their time on Habbox..