Bear in mind that some of those guests are already members--if you aren't logged into the site 24/7 you will also show up as a guest until you do so.

Most users are scared of registration, i once lurked on a music forum and tried to join only to find they wanted your real first and last name and i just didn't feel like putting a fake one, so i didn't join.

Plus, some people don't want to give their e-mail to join a site, cuz they are afraid of spam, in fact i maintain 1 regular private email, and one for things like myspace and facebook which just fill your box with spam.

Maybe they don't want to hear "Congratulations you have been selected to recieve a free Nintendo Wii/iPod" voice ad every other time they click on the forum. If one of my friends didn't post here I wouldn't have signed up for that reason alone. Those ads are SUPER annoying and I bet that they cost a website more money in deterred visitors than they make.

I give this thread a 9.5.

simple, one-word solution to that: Gmail

OT: they're afriad their posts/threads will be the first to be rated under 9.0 by profcrab.

 Well, I wouldn't say that it's much of an incentive, as to the majority of members the top 50 is the most interesting, the top 200 is only really important if you're tracking a certain game, or whathaveya.

I intimidate them. It's my charm and my curse.

Hand them a 'Lips' microphone. It should take their shyness away.

O no, you did not just shamefully promote Microsofts response to Singstar.

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this thread helped a little

I finally signed up! now I have to improve my English. I hope this is not my last post here.