Temporarily restricting access to Popedia for non-members.

The fact that the people who run inthe00s won't do anything to stop LB is also as frighting, they know it's an issue but they refuse to do anything despite many attempts showing this is a huge problem

Man, that was a pretty shitty response. I went into this thing being neutral on the whole Inthe00s/Popedia situation, but I'm honestly taken aback by how they're defending such obviously malicious behavior.

Yep. They're clearly showing favouritism, and it seems like nothing is going to convince them to change their opinions on the matter. 

Oh, I can't even begin to tell you how frustrating it was. That was actually the first thing I read on my phone when I woke up this morning, I couldn't get over it. There's a lot more that I could have said in my response to the two of them, but I thought it was best to hold myself back (it wasn't easy though).  

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I didn't want to drag Popedia into the mess that is happening in the copycat thread over on inthe00s, but I don't want to keep information about the situation from anyone. To anyone who's interested, these are the two responses I received from the mods over on inthe00s:



This was my response:

I agree, I think two weeks isn't going to be long enough unfortunately. I'm a bit unsure though about keeping the forum completely off-limits for guests/lurkers indefinitely, tbh. I do agree that keeping registrations restricted is probably the best thing to do going forward (since we can approve who joins our forum), but when it comes to actually restricting all non-members from even being able to see the forum, I think keeping it restricted might actually hurt Popedia in the long-run. The people who have signed up over the past few days are most likely people who had been lurking Popedia for quite a while and were already familiar enough with the forum (without needing to see it) to know that it was safe to register. If I was a new visitor to a closed-forum, i'm not sure if I would want to sign-up if I had to no way of knowing what the forum itself is like. That's my only concern.

That's a good idea, although the only thing I'm a bit worried about is that LyricBoy could soon catch on to it and starting visiting the forum during the times when it is available to access for guests.

I was talking to @loosebolt about this on the previous page actually, but another alternative I can think of would be to make the forum accessible for everyone to see, however all of the links on the homepage would be hidden unless you are logged-in to an account. All of the sub-boards and categories (e.g The Decade Den, Popedia Lounge) would still be listed on the homepage as they are normally, but guests/lurkers wouldn't have access to the threads themselves. 

Yeah I don't think we should keep restricting it forever, since I'd still want people to be able to get a look and feel at the forum before signing up. I think the idea that Loosebolt had is a good idea. Would it be possible to implement it?