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Re: 10 members,175 guests...
3 members and 166 guests on a sat afternoon.
I believe one of the reasons that so many people simply lurk on these types of sites is because they don't trust that the site wont spam them.
There are so many sites on the web that have spammer people or worse, in the name of making a few bucks that few people trust sites with their information.
The warnings on the web are constant about scams and identity theft.
however if there was a way to explain that the membership sign up is actually a way to keep things secure and to keep these types of scams out. more people would sign up. the sign up process should be considered a plus rather then a hassle, its just a part of site security.
Here is what i have told people in the past who were very Leary of a site sign up. Every piece of information that is asked for has a function on the site. mostly for security,but some is to set up functions like the birthday module, or your community profile. every reputable site (like this one) give you an op in to a news letter if they are going to send stuff out. I get it, no problems there.
If giving out your primary email address really bothers you then create a secondary one. plenty of free email services out there.(msn,yahoo,live,gmail,ect) Its just to verify that you are a real human instead of a spam bot,and to contact you if the site or another members need to. so keep the email active so that it can be used when necessary. personally i just forward all my secondarys to my primary then get all the emails in one place.
and lets not forget the best reason for a membership sign up. it allows the admin to ban those who want to be mean and nasty. which is just another big plus.
actually i have been on here for quite a while and i don't remember anyone getting banned. thats like gotta speak volumes about the crowd that hangs out here.
I once upon a time owned a site that banned so many people that we couldn't keep tract of who had banned who and why, not good. whats worse is now I have been banned, and noone seems to know why. LOL
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