[Valter]

Originally Posted by Super Jinni

this issue looks really ugly when guests get the message about their posts count

It can not be ugly. It's just information that area is not opened for all users. Is there any good reason to hide this info from guests? No one like situations where you see message "please register", then you register and see another message "no access before you bla bla". Users will leave forum in many cases after this and you will just have a lot of inactive accounts in your database.

Few days ago I've registered to some forum because membership is required to view threads, then I activated account, and then I see another message "you must donate to view......". Then I asked admin to delete my account as I will never use it again. I'll be thankful if they said in the first message that forum area is accessible to donors only.