Time to get some new members here!

[Wes]

When I'm going to join a new forum, I lurk for a couple days/weeks. Then, if I decide I want to comment, I join. I don't think I have ever just joined a forum not even reading any threads at all from the site.

If this forum was private when I first saw it, I probably would have just moved along and never joined. Of course, I'm sure there are some people that would like to have seen me move on.

[eejit101]

TPOPS made me rofl. Sounds like a great plan.

And rofl at bunny defending all her "women with nice buns have a brain"........ mmmmmhmmmm, course they do. No longer ago than last night, i had a woman ask me what was in a Vodka Red bull..... and she has a stunning figure. And another the way to the pub she was already in.

Maybe you have a brain, but i havent seen your ass so i cant comment.

[MAYHEM45]

I agree with this, the forums should be open.

[bunny]

I like the fact it's set to private though, since we have pictures posted of ourselves.

If it's possible to lock some threads to keep them private, while opening the rest for public viewing ...I think that would be great.

It would also be an added incentive for someone trying to view those private threads ...to register in order to view them.

The best possible idea, if you could make it happen would be to :

Keep the poker discussion area open for public viewing and block off all the rest.

[Talking Poker]

This is a decent idea, and one that I think I could do. When I started the forum, it was wide open. I eventually made it private because we had SO MANY lurkers and I was hoping to get more of those people to register. Also, when certain douchebags go and get themselves banned, I don't think they should be able to have full access to the site any more, with the only difference being that they can no longer post.

You guys make valid points though. And I guess most of the other big poker forums are wide open, aren't they?

I think it might make the most sence to open up the "All Things Poker" (5), "More Things Poker" (3) and "Admin" (1) sections, leaving only the Multimedia (2) and Off Topic (2) sections private. That way, people can access all the poker talk they want, but if they want to download videos (not that people have been posting many videos lately) or go through the off topic shennanigans, they'll need to register for the site.

I don't have to break it down like that, btw... that would just be easiest. We may want to keep "Railbird" private too, for example.

Meh, I don't know. I'm back and forth on this, but it's definitely worth more thought. Thanks.

[Reel Deal]

FYP

[badblood44]

Now that my corporate proxy is allowing me through, I hope I can participate more. As such, I'd be happy to plug this forum in a post on the blog.

I always thought that this was a better forum than most, it managed to stay relatively on the mature side (some exceptions of course) and it being on the smaller side was actually a plus for me.

I'll put something up this weekend.

[Nikita]

I've got a link on my blog to here, but I don't really get that many visitors, and I think most of the regulars are from here anyway.

I'm also thinking there are a few people out there who never joined TP.com as they couldn't lurk the site first.

[omahilo]

hey welcome back badblood... long time no see.

I would be up for a series of tournaments... with a variety of games of course.

[Invigilator]

I like the ide of making the general discussion public.

Opening up the whole thing? Well, we've seen how things can go if someone puts their mind to being a goof and screwing up threads. Going public will add in the casual, lazy goofs too.

[Talking Poker]

I actually think the General Discussion should be that LAST part of the site opened up. That's where the non-poker stuff is, including all the picture threads that bunny was referring to and so on.

[Talking Poker]

I don't remember who, but I know for a fact that there are people who found us through your blog in the past, so thanks in advance. A random plug is fine, but if you'd rather wait until we set up an added money tourney or something and plug that, that's fine too. We'll be having one soon, for sure.

[PShabi]

I too believe that removing the "privacy" of the board would help get new registrations.

[Talking Poker]

Already taken care of.

[bunny]

What a Great Idea!

GL