Oh, and if you made it mandatory to register before viewing the forums, I bet the traffic would inadvertently go up.
No, that's what a forum does when they're scared of other people. See: the Insurgency.
One big turn off for me is opening a thread and finding nothing but "
" or a who's online message. It's like, I came all this way for this? I demand satisfaction, robdammit. That's why, despite my obsessive-compulsive need to keep up with every forum (except Sports and Politics) I don't bother clicking on a thread if I see the last poster is an alt or a known offender.
