Richard Casto wrote:
In short, I don't think we are capable of pulling this off without it being a real admin headache. (Yes that is a challenge as I would love for someone to prove me wrong!)
A completely open forum is an enormous g** d*** pain in the ass. You're going to be spending half the day weeding out the f'ing spambots from China.
Just to prove the point, let me tell you about csvalues. It was one of our business partner's projects for a christian singles forum. A domain was registered, web server setup, and vb installed. Pete messed with it for a while before losing interest, and there it sat for months. Nobody but Godaddy had any idea it existed. Yet, when we went to repurpose it for liftedtrucksUSA, guess how many accounts had been registered? posts and comments? Not a single human being using the site, yet there were hundreds of spambots. LTUSA was getting hundreds of new spammer accounts registering per day, resulting in dozens of spambot posts a day, and every moderator bitching about it all day.
If you want a public forum to talk cars, there are many MANY thousands of them on the internet. I come here because it's
NOT a bunch of random idiots from all over the internet. (It's a select subset of the local idiots :-)) That said, I would be open to a compromise... one need not be a member to access the forum, but there must be some form of affiliation with the club and/or its activities -- associates, volunteers, sponsored "guest" members, whatever.
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