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    Grenafukindear Grenadier is offline
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    Guests should be forced to register....

    Hey i have searched to see if this has been discussed and i have not found any previous discussions.

    Lately i have been seeing alot of guest activity...







    I think it should be made harder for guests to use ragezone but how could MentaL do this?

    I mean just register its not hard... :/

    I hope you agree with me


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    karLi Ganja Co. El Jamie is offline
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    Re: Guests should be forced to register....

    Lately? It's being going on forever. I don't think we can exactly 'force' guests into registering accounts because if they're forced to, they going to instantly leave again and if they even do decide to join they'd only probably be 'lurkers' going around the categories they want. Also, if you're not a registered user or not logged in then you'll see whenever you click one of the categories or a post you get an advertisement and there's no delay. Every click you make on a category, post, thread and even clicking back, you will get an advertisement. Forcing isn't an option, unfortunately.

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    Re: Guests should be forced to register....

    MentaL could just restrict the forum from guest.Redirecting them to a page saying "Register to use RaGEZONE".

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    Grenafukindear Grenadier is offline
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    Re: Guests should be forced to register....

    Quote Originally Posted by El Jamié View Post
    Lately? It's being going on forever. I don't think we can exactly 'force' guests into registering accounts because if they're forced to, they going to instantly leave again and if they even do decide to join they'd only probably be 'lurkers' going around the categories they want. Also, if you're not a registered user or not logged in then you'll see whenever you click one of the categories or a post you get an advertisement and there's no delay. Every click you make on a category, post, thread and even clicking back, you will get an advertisement. Forcing isn't an option, unfortunately.
    Lol damn :/ its so annoying though that their is more guests online than registered users...

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    Omega Ron is offline
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    Re: Guests should be forced to register....

    People who want to contribute to the community will register accounts to post. People who do not will not register.

    Guests have to register to view links and attachments, unless that plugin was removed in the last upgrade.

    Why make people register when they aren't going to post, and when Mental cleans the DB their account will be deleted anyways because of 0 posts?

    You can't force people to contribute.

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    Grenafukindear Grenadier is offline
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    Re: Guests should be forced to register....

    Quote Originally Posted by Ron View Post
    People who want to contribute to the community will register accounts to post. People who do not will not register.

    Guests have to register to view links and attachments, unless that plugin was removed in the last upgrade.

    Why make people register when they aren't going to post, and when Mental cleans the DB their account will be deleted anyways because of 0 posts?.

    You can't force people to contribute.
    Thanks for clearing that up a great response. Thanks ron.

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    Gamma Samus. is offline
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    Re: Guests should be forced to register....

    Also, lots of them are bots like the ones from Google. :)

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    The World Is Yours PixelPro is offline
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    Re: Guests should be forced to register....

    I agree that they should not be 'forced', however they should have limited access; if they want to make use of all the forum features then they should register, just an opinion.

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    Omega Ron is offline
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    Re: Guests should be forced to register....

    Quote Originally Posted by PixelPro123 View Post
    I agree that they should not be 'forced', however they should have limited access; if they want to make use of all the forum features then they should register, just an opinion.
    All they have access to is reading posts. They can't see links, can't download attachments, are flooded with ads, what else do they need to have? lol

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    Grenafukindear Grenadier is offline
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    Re: Guests should be forced to register....

    Quote Originally Posted by Ron View Post
    All they have access to is reading posts. They can't see links, can't download attachments, are flooded with ads, what else do they need to have? lol
    So if they cant see link and are flooded with ads and such? The why are they still here? Why not just register then they can see links....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Space-Bar View Post
    So if they cant see link and are flooded with ads and such? The why are they still here? Why not just register then they can see links....
    Because most of them are bots. Like, the majority of them are bots and search engine crawlers. Forcing guests to register would make rz lower in search ranking because then search crawlers won't be able to access content.

    Its best how it is right now tbh. Already explained why there's no reason to change.

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    Captain of the Universe Rishwin is offline
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    Re: Guests should be forced to register....

    There is a single reason why registration is not forced for guests - Because unique guest page views generate more money from Google ads than registered members do. This has been covered multiple times, if you had searched it should have come up.

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    may web.very maple.pls. iAkira is offline
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    Re: Guests should be forced to register....

    What I suggest is blocking all links in developments section, since this forum focuses in game developments. The rest should be allowed to see.

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    Omega Ron is offline
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    Quote Originally Posted by iAkira View Post
    What I suggest is blocking all links in developments section, since this forum focuses in game developments. The rest should be allowed to see.
    Log out and browse the development sections.

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    The World Is Yours PixelPro is offline
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    Re: Guests should be forced to register....

    Quote Originally Posted by Ron View Post
    All they have access to is reading posts. They can't see links, can't download attachments, are flooded with ads, what else do they need to have? lol
    Apologies, I wasn't aware of this... I'm always logged in on RZ and yes it's fine that way, they don't need any more restrictions.



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