SUGGESTIONS Guests should not be allowed to view threads

[werker]

Hello everyone 

As everyone can see, a great majority of the people on patched at almost every moment of the day, are guests (glowies) or soon to become bots that will spam our inboxes most likely. My suggestion is simple, restrict guests from being able to view threads. It would also benefit the forum as it would entice people to sign up on the forum to see our great hq threads. Bye 

[Kermode]

I partially disagree, it would bring down traffic and protentional new members because it will lower the results on search index. There must be some other way to mitigate those spammers whilst still remaining income of new members, but at the other hand making them forced to sign up might lead to more growth mmmmh though one