90% of our board is open - you can see all the posts, but you can't post unless you're registered. We also have a database that you have to be a registered member to access, and that's a popular feature on our board so people register to use it. We mod the first post for spam, but after that, people can post, but they do have to be registered. I think having the important features be available to registered members provided a sense of scarcity for the resource, so they register. But we want them to see the information. Nothing I hate worse than going to a board and you can't even see the forums. I don't bother to register to sites like that personally.
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