Seems as tho nobody as replied with any advice I have made my downloads part of my forum open for Guests and its working out fine, we are still getting a good number of new members plus we are starting to get Active members too so go ahead with this option if you want to build up a great Active community
will Reviewed by will on . Should The Forum Be Open / Partially Open Should The Forum Be Open / Partially Open Say u have 6000 members ( abt 300 active posters ) and 10K posts ( with replies) And all u do is u have a 4 star rating in katz and u get ausome traffic. Now my question is will u prefer to have an open ( guest only ) forum or a forum where u will have a separate guest section and also the rest normal sections only viewable to reg members . If u go with the separate guest section, How will u manage . allow everyone to post in guest section Rating: 5