C W Burfle posted:It's comical how many members actually believe being a "member" helps the occurrence of non-members being able to read other member info.
If you don't think there is any value to the protection, then why not put your contact information in your signature?
You might as well...
CW - you are conflating membership with participation - obviously, if the member has a lot of activity - its a better bet. A new member who just registered last week - not so much.
But just being a member does nothing to protect you.
I feel for the site owners - they are too far down this road to change to a better forum software.
With something like Simple Machines Forum software - they have plugins for on-site sales, reputation system, etc. (Open source vs Hosted platform)
But the fact is - your trying to drive a nail with a screwdriver...this forum software - no matter how many rules, etc - is the wrong tool for the job.
Hoop.la is not setup to accommodate sales in any way. As far as I can tell - Hoop.la can't even hide certain forums from non-members (that would be helpful, no?) - and don't seem to offer any mods or plug-ins to add commerce features to the site.
