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socom58 · **Joined:** Fri Dec 21, 2007 12:29 am **Posts:** 593

Vote above. Making the entire forum private will require you to be logged in to view anything.

PAULDAWG · **Posted:** Thu Jul 08, 2010 7:35 am

lol so who is the one person who doesn't want to log in and just lurk?

Jin357 · **Posted:** Thu Jul 08, 2010 12:41 pm

My guess is vash. He lurks a lot haha.

vash357 · **Joined:** Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:16 am **Posts:** 361

Actually, no. It auto logs in at home and at work I usually want to check the gun forum, so I'm signing in there anyhow, lol. At work though I've been spending alot more of my time on calgun.net than anywhere else. Only during my lunch break of course, lol.

MR_FAT_GOAT · **Posted:** Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:20 pm

PAULDAWG wrote:

lol so who is the one person who doesn't want to log in and just lurk?

Me

But it seems I am vastly outnumbered. But it's a democrazy, so I won't stop the inevitable

ilkhan · **Posted:** Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:28 pm

MR_FAT_GOAT wrote:

PAULDAWG wrote:

lol so who is the one person who doesn't want to log in and just lurk?

Me

But it seems I am vastly outnumbered. But it's a democrazy, so I won't stop the inevitable

I stay logged in in both occasions, lets me instantly see if any new posts since the forums with new are blue. But, I check the forums about every 10 minutes. The number of times Ill see somebody else logged in and then refresh and they're gone without posting makes me sad.

Feldral · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2010 7:20 am

humm, i am on the fence on this one.

i like that we have a forum that is strictly for us, and changing it so that everything is private would not hurt or even change that experience. because really, is the most users on at one time really all that important a stat? we have 15 members, we could all long in at a coordinated time and then we would make the max and then that would be it, done. we would have to recruit more people to make it go higher. ACTUALLY, now that i think about it, making it all private would not solve the user count issue, people who attempt to see the forum would still be counted as guests at the index page.

personally i am curious about the people that do come to the forum and have no idea who the hell we are IRL. i might actually be tempted to go so far as to suggest making ONE spot that guests could post at (and oh god never more than that). just to see what these guests that keep coming here are like and why they keep showing up.

so i guess i would want to run some tests, just out of curiosity, before i say one way or the other.

vash357 · **Joined:** Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:16 am **Posts:** 361

Feldral wrote:

i might actually be tempted to go so far as to suggest making ONE spot that guests could post at (and oh god never more than that). just to see what these guests that keep coming here are like and why they keep showing up.

If I remember right we had something like that and the only thing that ever got posted was spam, so we got rid of it.

Feldral · **Posted:** Sat Jul 10, 2010 10:54 am

vash357 wrote:

If I remember right we had something like that and the only thing that ever got posted was spam, so we got rid of it.

now that you mention it, i think i may remember that. however, that was before our "popularity" on Google grew.

ilkhan · **Posted:** Sat Jul 17, 2010 10:42 pm

6:1. When is it going private?

imirk · **Posted:** Mon Jul 19, 2010 8:44 am

mm privates, almost as yummy as haggis...

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