Is it a good idea to force people to register to view forums

[princessangry]

hih.

[Valkyre]

Bad idea. Very bad idea.

[Floris]

I never liked the idea, but when google was eating the majority of my free bandw. I set guests to view: no and register required.
The amount of users that signed up has trippled - but I must say: only for the first few months. It is back to normal now again.
Could be; because we are no longer getting googlebots to attack the site for new threads