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Originally posted by TLucent
Well Nakkid,

The site I run is a free service for anyone who REGISTERS with no ads and nothing is sold just a community forum that offers potentially useful information for FREE. There is never nothing to buy and I pay for the hosting and bandwidth out of my pocket. I pay for the software that is ran on the website and I devote endless hours to provide a FREE service to whom ever would like to use it. All I ask is for them to register. I will respect your wishes with the use of your vbArchive code however do not respect your impractical suggestion of "twisted" and "unethical" methods "to gain more users" at the cost of the poor soul who devoted much time and money simply clicking on a link and ended up on my site.

.:TRansLucent.:

Don't take in a negative way, but most visitors will think like that, the way I posted earlier.
I know what you mean by free service, look at me and my hacks... hell, vbHome eat my life for a week and I did it for free.

I was speaking not directly to you, but to a person who would do this. I guarantee you most people will close the browser and never go back to your site, if you block them... I know it from my own experience with my protected forums.

Since I open the gate to everyone, I had over 200 new members in 2 weeks. Before it used to be like this scenario:
User come and visit the site, he registers and he get accepted to the restricted areas, if he displays the vbHome (lite) copyright onto his website.
Look onto those forums:
http://www.teckwizards.com/forum/for...p?s=&forumid=6

If you click on any thread, you will get a no_permission, until you register... but you still can view the thread titles. The rest of the forums are open to guests.
That is a hack I made, not released at vBulletin...

Anyway, the idea is this: is better to have your site open, trust me, people will register.
Good luck with your projects.