That probably will be the way it draws itself out, since the communities are somewhat symbiotic. It just won't be on the front page for unregistered people to see. From the analytics tho, quite honestly, not many people go from here to there that are part of the discussions.
When we removed the link temporarily, the searches for the TB shot up and the names that followed those searches were not recognizable to your every day poster. There are some that I had to look up to see when they registered and just how many times they've posted. Some posted less than 10 times since 2003. I'm not sure that that level of lurking or participation qualifies as being an active member aside from just having logged on or even just clicked a bookmarked link that had "remember me" checked off. Little to no effort. Why should I be so concerned about such folks? What is the benefit? What is the loss?
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