[konidias]

If I'm not mistaken, anyone can view the forums, but only gold members can post... or was this changed?

I don't see the reason to have to go through all the work of having to enable posting for hundreds of accounts. First off, the forums would overflow with people that have no regard for forum rules, and we're definitely not prepared to have to moderate the forums 24 hours a day, and probably banning dozens of accounts a day.

Can you just imagine how many PMs forum staff and unix/stefan would get? 100's a day. Maxed out pm boxes nonstop. I'm not saying we can't have a lot of people, I'm just saying it would be hell to just suddenly allow hundreds of people to post in the blink of an eye.