Do you allow guest posting on your forum?

[BassMan]

Hello XenForo members!

I'm thinking about guest posting for one of my forums, but I'm not sure about it.

What are your experiences with guest posting if you allow it? Do users engage more because they don't have to register?


Thank you for your opinions and for participating in the poll.

Kind regards,
BassMan

 

[ŽivaAkcija]

very bad idea, first you recieve lots of spam and stupid comments, next what happens people will start ignore your forum becouse of crazy people.

 

[BassMan]

I agree, but if you moderate it... I know, you suddenly have a lot of work

 

[ŽivaAkcija]

Trust me, people are worst, i give you example, i open new forum about air conditioner where people share experience about it, couple crazy ones attack other user very badly, why they buy Chinese air conditioner, why you not buy japanese fujitsu, that is so stupid and this is continue every day

 

[BassMan]

For now, the results are as expected in the poll.

 

[AbuGhaith]

no it's a bad idea, can be a forum for questions, but to post topics no,

 

[BassMan]

One vote for Yes and I notice increase in user engagement. Interesting...

 

[Anthony Parsons]

very bad idea, first you recieve lots of spam and stupid comments

Rubbish. I have guest posting enabled and get zero spam, and everything goes through moderation. I get zero spam because I use the stop human spam add-on and have it tweaked to perfection from years of use. Guest posting creates additional dialogue, and many guests are engaged, thus they register to become active members.

I have found one simple trick to keep people happy with forum engagement -- make everything super simple. Accessibility should be super simple, catering all frames of mind and moods, you merely have to use commonsense on what you allow to go instantly live.

 

[Robert9]

There is a forum where people are not supposed to register on their own. The operator only wants specific individuals in the forum, whom he invites or creates accounts for himself. However, he needs a way for people to introduce themselves to him.

A subforum where guests can post would be a good idea for this purpose. Perhaps with a custom field that only the poster and the admin can see, where an email address can be stored.

I am supposed to solve the problem for him, but at the moment, I still prefer the contact form with topic creation.

 

[Rusty Snippets]

Another vote for the Contact form. Easy peesy.

 

[Deleted member 184953]

Something funny I noticed today. A spammer took the time to fill out the registration form, validate it with the email sent and then create a discussion which was caught by the spam detector integrated into XenForo...

It's a shame because I allowed guests to respond to discussions so he just had to respond to one of them as a guest to publish his message praising his miracle product...

 

[Mendalla]

Seems to me like an invitation to a regular, but permabanned, "visitor" who pops in once or twice a year even absent this.

 

[avalanch]

Absolutely not as it enables a spammer or banned user to grief almost effortlessly.

 

[badmonkey]

Yes, on multiple sites, zero spam if you use the right questions.

 

[Suzanne O]

Short answer: Nope.

Long answer: No i don't allow guests to post on my forum. They have to sign up to post on my forum.
I don't allow scammers, pornbots, spambots, on my site.
Simply because they're gross.

 

[Suzanne O]

Rubbish. I have guest posting enabled and get zero spam, and everything goes through moderation. I get zero spam because I use the stop human spam add-on and have it tweaked to perfection from years of use. Guest posting creates additional dialogue, and many guests are engaged, thus they register to become active members.

I have found one simple trick to keep people happy with forum engagement -- make everything super simple. Accessibility should be super simple, catering all frames of mind and moods, you merely have to use commonsense on what you allow to go instantly live.

How many pornbots leave gross imagery on your site?

 

[TCG2007]

Zero spam from guest posting on my site. Its mostly folks coming from Google to bump really random threads but then it gets my members going and they start getting old threads going again.

Its been working great.

 

[beerForo]

And don't forget about the Writing Before Registering feature built into XF.

 

[Deleted member 184953]

I think it's the worst thing to activate, you think you can participate freely, you write your message and while you want to publish it we force you to register! It's like free offers where you're asked for your credit card. I'm running away!!

 

[Rusty Snippets]

What I see happening lol