I've noticed a lot of forums lately making guests sign in to view threads. (Not RCM thankfully.) This ranges from guests being totally locked out (such as truggyracers.com) to others just allowing a certain # of views before you have to login (BYT is like this iirc.)
That S is fraking lame.
I used to jump over to truggyracers
(just for example...) every now and them for some info, but then they went to a closed forum system. Haven't been back since, and I even made an acct there forever ago. What, you think your forum is so awesome I'm going to create an acct and send you my email addy before I can even see if the forum is decent or not? I'm sure I'll find the answer somewhere else.
Some would say, "why not just create an acct?" Because I don't want to. I don't want to give you my email addy, have one more password, & one more thing to remember, esp if I'm using a "public" computer and don't want to have all my login cookies saved, esp for a forum I may visit 5x a year. I don't want to have one pswd for 40 diff forums either. I'll just go to a cool forum like RCM.
I really can't figure a compelling reason for a growing # of places to do this. Either they want to collect email addy's/user info, are elitists, stop web crawlers like google (why? IDK,) are anally retentive control freaks w/ paranoid delusions, or want to control some bandwidth. The last by mostly people not visiting their site and not clicking on the ads...
Anyway, I feel better now. :) Thinking I should make this a reoccuring installment... "WTFROTW"
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