I think it's a good idea, most of the trolls simply make a new account when they get banned so I doubt we'll see a huge increase in trolling.

edit: VG Chartz has always struck me as an odd site since the number of guest users online always seems to be much greater than the number of members. Encouraging these guest to interact with the community more or at least visit longer would be useful.

Let's not and say we never had this conversation! You want to make this site into the next Gamespot or IGN? You sell outs! ;)

I don't think it's that hard to sign up to post comments. I think the news and editorial section could stand out more. Make the headlines larger, remove the avatars, and place a single date for news articles released on the day.

 I don't think it would be a good idea for two reasons. The first one is that it will likely be used by disruptors and banned users to try to spread hatred and such.

 The second reason (and I'm not flaming.. This is by far my favorite gaming-related site!) is that the site runs pretty slowly at times and is almost inaccessable. During the evening hours, I've noticed that I can't even view it. Wouldn't increased traffic slow it down even more?

No that wouldn't be a great idea at all! Banned people like Hus, GballZack and others can easily post as well as guests and I see at other websites how guests can be very offensive to others without having an identity.

So not a good idea, don't do it, if you want to post, just register, we know then who you are and if you are being offensive, you can be banned easier.

Wow so anyways I bought a new computer cause my old one was fried. It's an Acer q6600 intel core2 quad. It improved the speed but this site still loaded way too slow. Often it failed to load at all. Then I installed Firefox and wham! VGChartz works for me again. Has anyone else had this experience with Internet Explorer. Seeing as the majority of people use IE, maybe you should guys could get the site to run smoother on IE. Easier than getting people to switch to Firefox anyways. Also wanted to add I deleted the free 3 month trial membership to Norton that I got with it and I am trying out Avast, a free antivirus program. Norton was slowing my computer major.

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I think that the outages are your biggest impediment to increased traffic.  It turns people off to see multiple minute page loads and page failures.  You fix that and site traffic will increase drastically.