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ooPo · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 6:03 am Post subject:

Oh look! A guest with a legitimate question who received a valid, helpful response. Its a good thing guest posting isn't disabled. :)

mrbrown · Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 1536

Logic dictates that if he just got his environment working, that he will make many many more trips to these forums when he runs into snags. Which means he'd probably be better off with a real account.

BTW, "warez" guest postings have begun to outpost legitimate questions.

ooPo · Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2004 12:54 pm Post subject:

Perhaps, but what's stopping them from registering to ask the same questions? Guests aren't (yet) abusing the forums. They're just sometimes asking the about wrong thing. Disabling guest posting will not fix that.

2BeyondTheGrave · Joined: 12 Feb 2004 Posts: 11 Location: MaryLand

The thing I dont get is that no matter how many times you tell someone that YOU CANT FAKE COPY RIGHT PROTECTION AND PLAY BURNT GAMES ON A NORMAL PS2 people still ask the same question and then get mad at you when you try to tell them you cant :roll:
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nosense · Guest

just have a fat banner at the top of the forums page saying no warez questions. simple.
besides, I fail to see the benifit in having an account. Requiring one to post provides virtually no safeguard unless you are somehow going to (pompous voice and bowtie on) 'approve' all users first.

mrbrown · Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 1536

hubevolution · Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 32

I agree with mrbrown, is a matter of discouraging ppl, I mean at least you need to register and give out a valid email address and wait for registration email before posting ... that would be enough to filter out many potentially problematic users.

ooPo · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 5:00 am Post subject:

On the one hand, discouraging people may seem like a good way to cut out problems... but do we really have the forum traffic to be able to afford to discourage everyone just to avoid the wrong questions from some of them? Its not like they're posting 20 times a day looking for warez. We're talking one or two messages a week.

mrbrown · Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 1536

I'm not sure what you mean by "discourage everyone", since all of the active posters are registered users already.

ooPo · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 7:18 am Post subject:

Want more active posters? I do.

Willing to put up with minor annoyances in the hope that a few of these posters will register and start contributing? I am.

Drakonite · Site Admin Joined: 17 Jan 2004 Posts: 989

I'm well aware of how much people listen to my opinions but...

Perhaps we'd all be better off if we kept these type of disscussions in their own threads.

If nothing else, it would then mean if someone actually searched previous posts for something such as, oh, lets say help with the ps2-independence exploit, they'd find posts helping them with that, as opposed to discussions about whether guest posting should be allowed or not.

That's just my opinion anyways. And I know how much everyone values what I think.
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