The forum should only be open to members. Right now anybody can see it and explore it. That's not good. If you want to protect your members or want your members to feel safe you should change it. Of course there's not much you can do against hackers unless you're a better one.
Since anyone can register anyway, this would defeat the point. Frankly I'd rather people NOT register.
Another thing. Strength is in numbers and if you don't want to be ephemeral you have to expand and to expand you need members and I don't mean members who come raid your booty and never look back but members who actively participate in the forum. And you wont get that if you give away your booty like you do now. They should get the sets after registering. That's a minimum. And if you want to keep them you should have a variety of topics. Politics, general discussions, you name it.
Members do not need to register to download. The forum is not the purpose of the site and member counts on the forum mean nothing.
And (now you'll probably want to kill me) you should put up a paypal button. In today's world people donate to the most absurd of things. Why not ride that? You don't have to put it in your pockets. You can use it for charity, bandwidth or for helping young talented meshers etc.
Because someone would just bitch and Paypal would likely kill the account anyway because they're a bunch of squeamish wussies. They killed the MTS2 account merely for sim-pr0n, after all.
And I don't think its a good idea letting in kids. Some of the threads are not meant for children. You don't need indignant frothing at the mouth parents screaming SUE, do you? It happened with FF.net and they had to change their policy. I don't know whats the case in Malaysia but the US is well know for its pressurizing abilities. And when they want they can reach far.
Kids are not allowed on the forum. All users are required to convincingly pretend to be older than 12. Says so in the registration agreement. Any kids found here will be banned on sight.
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