All this negative commentary because something is being tried for a period of time? Its been in place for about 4 days only.
Plus, many boards in the Movie Poster and Common Poster Subjects areas are open to all, as are the Dealer and For Sale/Want boards.
And it seems some here choose not to read and comprehend, when I stressed in a post last night that this was something to try, a trial... nothing more.
And why suddenly are some forgetting the complaining that was done about
because they could see everything, including auctions, want lists and the like. Short term memory helps with the latest thread here, for some, it seems. I also seem to recall reading the terms "moochers" and "freeloaders" when others referred to Guests lurking here on the board.
Since there had been previous critical commentary and threads about Guests and what they can see, this temporary change was to try and make some of those members feels better about the forum and its availability, overall.
Trying some simple changes is not worth getting agitated over.
Ideas come and go, or are tried, and implemented and sometimes, later, discarded.
It will all work out here.