Many forums and even Facebook don't let you see any content until you log in to your account. If you give people the milk for free, they have no incentive to buy the cow. I told Rich several years ago he should hide more of the forums content to encourage more people to create accounts and log into the forum. Once they see what they were missing, they wonder what else is waiting for them within the club. That is the first step to getting them to be active participants and then on to club membership.
Also, I knew the former owner and developer of the UBBThreads forum software when I purchased my forum package 8 years ago. And he told me that the UBBThreads software wasn't intended for people to sign in and stay logged in indefinitely because if too many users do it, it can cause problems within the software because it makes the software seem active and working behind the scenes unnecessarily. Its like leaving your car running when you go to bed, its totally unnecessary, and can cause problems with your car just like it can with the software if you keep doing it. So it has a default hard wired into it to bump you off after so long. This issue became noticed by some of you several years ago after the software update took place, and many thought it was a glitch or a problem. But it really is the normal function of the software to do that and is intentionally designed to safeguard against issues that staying logged in can and will cause if you do it.
