I recently signed up as user and will most likely upgrade to Member. I'll first say that I enjoy the forums - both for being informative as well as the occassional humor (well more than occassional). Furthermore, I am a usesr of other forums and I know that kudos are always due the Moderators and other people who make the forum work.
However, I'm disappointed in the number of Members/Users active on the site - especially from the Bay Area/Delta in CA. There seem to be only a handful of people on the forums from the Bay Area and I believe the site would be better the more users we have.
In the interest of increasing the users and potential members, I think the rule for not using a free email like yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc to sign up should be relaxed. Most companies restrict use of the company email address at least in theory. And, how many people are going to pay for a personal email account if they can use Yahoo, Google, etc. for free.
Not sure of the purpose in restricting signup with free email - perhaps there is a great reason, and I just don't know it. If someone is out of bounds, can't they be banned anyway.
Anyway, just posting to get other's thoughts.
However, I'm disappointed in the number of Members/Users active on the site - especially from the Bay Area/Delta in CA. There seem to be only a handful of people on the forums from the Bay Area and I believe the site would be better the more users we have.
In the interest of increasing the users and potential members, I think the rule for not using a free email like yahoo, gmail, hotmail, etc to sign up should be relaxed. Most companies restrict use of the company email address at least in theory. And, how many people are going to pay for a personal email account if they can use Yahoo, Google, etc. for free.
Not sure of the purpose in restricting signup with free email - perhaps there is a great reason, and I just don't know it. If someone is out of bounds, can't they be banned anyway.
Anyway, just posting to get other's thoughts.
