Do we allow guests to post?

We started of this forum with guests being allowed to post.

I for one would like very much for guests to be able to post. Not only because its moor inviting to a new person to become a member but also because people can post certain things anomalously.

Like go to this thread and you well see why its such a good idea to allow guests to post.

http://www.alonelylife.com/showthread.php?tid=2480&page=1

I am for letting them but I was one of the people that took the dissuasion in stopping them from posting as we where getting nothing but spammed with porn and name calling. Some people do get hurt and both me and the admin reserved PM's from members saying if it wasn't stopped they would leave. This obviously could not be left to happen. This is why we stopped guests from posting.

So if you wont to let them post I well do my best to let that happen in the "I am lonely forum" again but you all must accept that there are always going to be people that are going to post there as a guest to do nothing but spam and to annoy.

Plus if guests are allowed to post again can you make it so I can bane bjarne as I fined it incredibly frustrating when I can do nothing but delete post after post. In tell the admin get on and read WTF pm I have sent.

Yes, I began posting here as a guest. I don't think that I would have had the courage otherwise to begin as a registered user.

No, Guests shouldn't be allowed to post here anymore. Yes the majority of them were well mannered and some of them have even joined as members but, members have been abused, flamed, pornographic pictures have been displayed reffering to female members on the forum, also members were accused of drug taking and abuse. My private messages were invaded by a guest, making comments about my mother, who passed away a few years ago. None of this should be tollerated, other forums wouldn't have it, so why should we. And this forum is different to others, it's a caring and support forum, I have said this many times now, there are some very sensitive and fragile members on this forum, some of them are even suicidal at times, so this forum needs to run smoothly to support these members. Also you don't want young children reading or seeing some of the stuff posted by these troll guests.

only for that one thread.
Ofcourse their actions or posting have to be limited ....a lot.
i dont really care

IgnoredOne said:

Yes, I began posting here as a guest. I don't think that I would have had the courage otherwise to begin as a registered user.

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yea..thats exactly what im talking about. People would have courage to open threads much more interesting and maybe reveal their deep dark or wild secrets, not be afraid to be judged or talked about as an individual. Or if possible, to limit them to one or 2 topics

What if we moved all of the threads from the open loneliness forum to the general loneliness forum(never did really understand the difference between the two) and allowed guests to post only in the newly emptied out and possibly renamed forum. And guests wouldn't be allowed to send pms, that way the potential craziness could be easily contained and also anyone who didn't want to interact with guests could avoid that forum altogether, is any of that feasible?

I think that for that one thread only members should post, but they ought to be able to post anonymously. If that's not too difficult I think it would work best. It might be an option to choose when making a new thread, or something life that. Anyway, I much prefer when we don't let guests post. I really don't like the trolls that come with guest posting.

NeverMore, I have no idea how that troll did that as a guest ( send a pm that is) Guests can not are should not be able to anyway. That one was a cleaver troll in deed lol. But your idea is a good one.


But this is well said,,, absolutly well said.
All tho I voted to let guests post I agree with this and every one should read Blue sky's post before they vote because this is the exact reason we stopped guests from posting in the fist place and after reading this am not totally sure that letting them again would be such a good idea.

Blue Sky said:

No, Guests shouldn't be allowed to post here anymore. Yes the majority of them were well mannered and some of them have even joined as members but, members have been abused, flamed, pornographic pictures have been displayed reffering to female members on the forum, also members were accused of drug taking and abuse. My private messages were invaded by a guest, making comments about my mother, who passed away a few years ago. None of this should be tollerated, other forums wouldn't have it, so why should we. And this forum is different to others, it's a caring and support forum, I have said this many times now, there are some very sensitive and fragile members on this forum, some of them are even suicidal at times, so this forum needs to run smoothly to support these members. Also you don't want young children reading or seeing some of the stuff posted by these troll guests.

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