Ok, I didn´t realize post tracking was also activated for guests.
But why?
Shouldn´t this be a feature reserved for registered members only?
It can´t be that I can´t open forums for guest access without deactivating vital features for registered members.
My dilemma:
1. we get a considerable higher rate of new registrations, when people can actually see what they´re subscribing to.
2. I´m using google adsense, if googlebot can´t reach the pages the banners are invocated on, I only get generic banners about other forum software, which no one is really interested in. I have *lots* of more clicks when google knows the content, because then I get content related banners. This is a vital source of revenue for me, cause we´re somewhat in the range of 100.000-200.000 page / banner impressions / day.
I propose introducing the option to turn off post tracking for guests
no more numbers for guests, if they want post tracking, they have to register.
there is a workaround,
teaser forums, a mod by JoshPet, but this doesn´t solve the problem with google revenues.
What exactly do you mean by "old style post tracking", because I think it has been split up into the following config options:
Show total # of unread posts per forum?
and
Show total # of unread replies in topics?
i had those deactivated once, the server was faster, but our members really hated it.
