I had the suggestion to make the main forum categories visible to everyone. Basically pages Board.php and Forum.php pages visible to see what is being discussed. (topic names, who made it, who last posted)
Threads themselves you have to login.
I thought it was silly as hell to block the MAIN FEATURE of the site from being viewed by non-members.... What is making new users sign up... the 14 year old fakes that signed up 15 mins before them?
That sounds like a good idea. I am an interesting person and meet very many people who ask to see where I write on a forum, but they are reluctant to join a site blind. So even though I advertise for the site, the inaccessibility of it prevents new members from throwing their hat into the ring. Also, probably GOOGLE can't scan a page that would lead people whom are searching for the very thing we are talking about in the forums, so we are a little bit of a cul de sac. It seems like a dead end because the information on the forums is cloaked in a way. People searching for some information, would be led here, read what they want and see some of the fine minds that round table serious shit on here, be attracted by other items of interest and lay down some stake in the finances of the site by joining. Saying Facebook has pull is ridiculous, or other sites too, we are a different kind of site, with a very special forum, that is as fun as it is enlightening.
I am a registered democrat and the bicameral legislative congress kinda shoots our self in the foot. The Independent party is our only hope and yet once you decide you are a democrat you can't vote any other way so, until that rule gets thrown out we can't have the independent party saving us from our own divisiveness. We need people that believe that neither party is right, and the voting system is false even though Trump had House of Representatives and the Senate with a Republican majority in the first go around. Now he lost the house and can't get anything passed. It was the first time that a President had control of congress since the 1950's, it was either Eisenhower or Truman that had a full house, but if you allow guns which is constitutional, the bill of rights, 1st amendment to provide people to secure their own safety or to go hunting, I don't think that we will ever lose the guns although it might happen. I like when the off duty cops take some people down on the sly, but you know these school shootings are proliferating and we might rebuke the right to have guns; but if you outlaw guns then only outlaws will have guns and yet they are discussing this right now. The whole interior of the country votes republican, the states on the oceans vote democrat, so it seems we need guns to take down a wild coyote or something
