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Posted by bosArt on 04-14-2022 at18:53:

  access to the board

I am considering to restrict access to the board to basic members. Reason is to increase security by not letting non-members to view anything else but announcements. I don't want to do this to generate more income, so I thought I better ask the community before actually doing this.

Anyone posting here, who is NOT already a lifetime basic member of the main website bosart.eu and therefore would lose access? Anyone here who would prefer keeping this board open for all?

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Posted by grizzletoad1 on 04-14-2022 at19:26:

  RE: access to the board

Are you saying we may have to have a paid membership to post in future? If that's the case I oppose. One of the joys of this board is the ability to interact with others with a similar interest much the same as I do on other groups. If you want to do something like Facebook does with its groups where you have to be approved by an administartor to join I can get behind that. But restricting access to the board and thus the group is not something I can support. It would be a shame to lose it.

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Posted by bosArt on 04-14-2022 at19:40:

  RE: access to the board

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Originally posted by grizzletoad1 Are you saying we may have to have a paid membership to post in future? If that's the case I oppose. One of the joys of this board is the ability to interact with others with a similar interest much the same as I do on other groups. If you want to do something like Facebook does with its groups where you have to be approved by an administartor to join I can get behind that. But restricting access to the board and thus the group is not something I can support. It would be a shame to lose it.

Nope, not like that. in case everyone here is a basic bosArt member anyway (that lifelong membership you have if you ever bought something), only then I would restrict this board for exactly those basic members, using same aMember login used for the blog/shop with no extra payment. As I said, I do not intend to generate more cashflow with this. And I'll only do it if no one from the community complains. So, if you are against it, it's already history :-)

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Posted by grizzletoad1 on 04-14-2022 at20:31:

 

I understand where you are coming from. Like I said, if you do it like how Facebook groups do, with access granted only after an administrator grants it, that's just fine with me.

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Posted by Martina_Martes on 04-16-2022 at17:42:

  RE: access to the board

i copletly oppose , as i use to come to the site before i had my own money n all , we should draw in more ppl even if they cant financialy contribute , they will look n share 2 and the more the better

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Posted by bosArt on 04-16-2022 at18:43:

 

okay, then I'll leave it as it is ...