by Baron » Thu Mar 31, 2011 5:33 pm
I administer another forum, that by the looks and styles, has the same 'host'. I know on that one, and I'm sure its true for most other, you can restrict guests to things like reading posts only. I think there is even an option where guests can basically access the home page and get an idea of what a forum is about, but cannot access the rest of the forum until they join. All those options are available in the system administration. Its just a matter of changing the options.