question to forum manager:
I'm a newB, searching for LOTRO information on your forum site.
I don't really enjoy sending you my email account(now expecting misc. junk email), however I understand the financial bonus to get new users, and since your main site has been very helpful, ok I signed up.
Now, I wanted to search on a certain subject, and I get, "must sign up as premium user". You already have my email account, but now you want more. Is Allakhazam forum that big. Lets check your numbers:
as of 9/25/2008 @ 10:30 am Pacific time, ( your Stats )
Users: 1,418,286
Comments: 9,831,881
Holly WargHog!, looks like your site is doing very well.
But I see your forum has only 15 pages at 100 posts/page. lets see, thats about 1500 posts total.( .1% or 1 post for every 1000 users ).
Ok, you probably purge some old posts, but what a shame!, please reconsider your premium search. Don't make me copy these pages and upload to excel worksheet where I can easily search.