Well, by shutting down lurkers after some period of time you force them to join or leave. And I think most would join, this site is kind of addicting and it does not cost you anything. It would force you to become one of "us" and increase our numbers and keep out the dunnage only looking to pick up drifting tips and never contributing anything. I would also think it could shut out many of the bots that visit every day. I don't like knowing there are lots of peeping toms reading or "monitoring" but not contributing to the site day in and out. What good is that? None of this is up to me anyway. I am just a sb.com cult member like some of you. And it doesn't really bother me....I am just more vocal this time of year for some reason. Must be the lack of herring this year.
Like many of you said, we all were a lurker for some period of time...but what is reasonable? How hard is it to register? What is the problem there? I just as soon not have every person in the world be able to read my posts.
I am tired of hearing...Oh I don't go to those kinds of web sites...yet they seem to know all about them...hmmmm. (You know they are full of it)
Perhaps there should be a private "lounge", "saloon" or "cockpit" where lurkers can not go? We could all gravitate to there to divulge our hot fishing secrets out of the prying eyes of the skulking lurkers.
