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*****Cannot for the life of me see how this new change will benifit followups from Visitors to discussions on the
Forum nor see how it will increase
membership, in fact it may just alienate some people further.
And this just after ThreadID: 82878 where it was said the majority of
Forum users were not even members & the site owners were happy with that.
How is this change "meeting our (ExOz) aims to "enthuse, entertain, and inform"?........ "we deliberately tried to keep
Membership separate from the
Forum so that
Forum usage was not restricted in any way. This contridiction from less than a week ago has got me Confused ???
Cheers Craig...............
Long term Visiter & site contributer.
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"ThreadID: 82878."
ExplorOz - David & Michelle replied:
***** the simple answer is that you don't NEED to be a Member to use the
Forum and we are happy with that. We certainly don't expect ALL site users to be Members.......
I was recently made aware that the majority of Members are NON
Forum users. They either don't even look at it, but use Treks,
Places, Road Conditions, etc or they are perfectly happy to just READ the
Forum. If you look as the stats, this is evident anyway - many more people READ the
Forum than Post into it and again, there's no problem with that provided we are meeting our aims to "enthuse, entertain, and inform"..............
Also, we deliberately tried to keep
Membership separate from the
Forum so that
Forum usage was not restricted in any way - this helps everyone because the VOLUME of people using the
Forum is the key to its success as a communication medium.............
As always, good to see you all discussing the pros/cons - its horses for course and often you have good suggestions that we can consider too.
Cheers all! Michelle"