NICO members, help out YOUR forums!!!

[AZhitman]

Keep up the good work - I am hard at work developing some additional resources for you guys to make recruiting new members even easier!

[andrave]

send me a couple bikini spokesmodels, a box of NICO T shirts, a T shirt launcher, a NICO S15, a NICO R34GTR, and a NICO 350z, and a big tent with the nico logo on it. I'll rol laround the country recruiting, you will have more members than you know what to do with.

[Puchi]

^^^ I'll do that but no need for the shirt launcher

[szh]

Actually, it used to be. We used to charge $10/year for membership but it's too hard to regulate. Plus, we feel people shouldn't have to pay to be part of such a great community.

I remember paying $35 (one-time) when I first signed up ... one or two generations back (of this site.)

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[jdmfreak]

Damn! Now there's free admission to the club.

[AZhitman]

LOL - Well, I have NO intention of us ever going back to a fee-based site as long as I can help it...

However, this $4500 hosting / maintenance bill I rec'd today was quite the kick in the groin!

We hit 1.2 million hits one day last week (in a 24-hour period). Big time!

[Puchi]

one idea, you can require all visitiors to log in/register. Keeps all the lurkers at bay and helps the bandwith issue.

[Mr1der]

I say hitman hooks a brotha up and makes me official spokesgoon:D

[jdmfreak]

Nah, you'll probably turn poeple away.

[EZcheese15]

one idea, you can require all visitiors to log in/register. Keeps all the lurkers at bay and helps the bandwith issue.

I know that if somebody links me to a site that requries registration to view....I make a mental not never to go there. If I can browse the forum and check out discussions first, then I'm more tempted to join.

[driftaholic]

zilvia requires registration to browse, and out of about 19,000 members, only 7,500 have one or more posts. that's only 39%.

nico has about 16,000 members and about 10,000 have made posts. that's 63%, or 1.6 times the percent that zilvia has.

see what happens when you require registration? people register, lurk for a while, and leave