94 online. 3 members - 91 guests. That sucks!

[Kitosdad]

That is unrealistic ..... 91 window-shoppers and 3 buyers.

Come on you browsers ............... if you register ( and it's free ) then you can ask your own questions, or maybe answer a few. You don't have to be a teacher.!!!

Really .... what are you doing just dawdling around here, when you could be doing something to improve yourself, or helping someone to improve themselves.?

Do yourselves a favour ........ register, and change your, or someone elses life.

You know it makes sense.
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[Gray]

I should confess that few years ago I was a window-shopper too But now I regret that

It's better to be late than never, but I urge all of the guests to take that first step NOW.
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[English With David]

I just realized that this forum allows unregistered guests to post. While I can understand this to a point, perhaps the best thing to do is to strongly encourage people to register as they are asking their first question. The process can be seamless, by asking for a few more fields right in the posting sequence if they aren't already signed in. (i.e., Log in if you are registered, or create new account if you aren't.) The incentive would be pretty straight-forward: You will get notification of answers in your inbox! Slava, can we do this?

-- David Beroff
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[Kitosdad]

David, I have tried to encourage this. I did have the thought of adding, " It's Free ",
as some folk think " subscribing " means that you have to pay to join.

It really is disturbing the number of guests that we have, and this can surely be curtailed by making subscribing necessary before posting, as we have guests only calling in to ask a question. Presumably they prefer this to browsing on Google.

Kitosdad.
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[English With David]

Well, I can see both sides of the coin, as placing a requirement can deter some people from participating. Of course, this particular step is beneficial to both the site and the participant, (a win/win), so I'm not sure why there's so much hesitation, but I do understand it. Several times, I've (personally) been googling for an answer to a rather esoteric question, will find an appropriate forum, and then just don't feel like signing up for yet another account for a site that's unlikely to ever see me again. I even have a friend or two who watch my personal blog, and they'll post "anonymously", (i.e., without an account), even though they know that they have to keep reloading pages before they'll ever see any responses; they just have privacy concerns, which I respect.

What I was suggesting to Slava was to actually integrate the registration process directly into the posting process for those who aren't registered or signed in when they post. Not very much would really be involved, possibly as little as an email field on the front end.

-- David Beroff
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[Sahid59]

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Hi Torsten..

Mr. Bill and Mr. David are giving their authentic suggestion for a better environment of english-test.net and I want to contribute mine too...

Like Readers' Digest, you can request the registered users to list some of the email addresses of their friends and your team can send a formal invitation to each of them telling the benefits of their registration by giving some samples of your assets...

In this way you can gain the attention of more people to register in this web project to get their free share..

As the will of guests browsing this site for the first time may not be tender enough to gain the confidence to leave their email addresses at the first instance if asked. So the registered users can recommend their friends to you to invite for registration...

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[Shyone]

But............I often do the window shopping bit too.

I do that just to see whether there are interesting posts to reply to, and if there are not, I just disappear again without bothering to sign in.

I obviously sign in though when I do my exercises.
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[English With David]

[Shyone]

Because, simple, isn't it?

I sign out everywhere, it's just the way I do things, and when I run CCleaner it happens automatically anyway.
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[DarkEdition]

I have submission, how to make that forum have more members.
Why just simple don't insert some script, which will forbid customers to see forum and to do test. Registering is really easy, and simple, everyone can register without any obstacles.

[English With David]

[DarkEdition]

Indeed, another good idea is to allowed customers to do only part of the test. To be more precious, only beginner part. For more they need to register, and to log in.
What you think about it?

[English With David]