Ok, I have few ideas on how to gain guest to join the forum.
- Guest can see total 5 topics (on forums that admin set to be limited), after that he must register, or surf just on topics that doesn't have limits.
- Guest, however can see all the forums, but some are limited.
- members with 0 posts can see more then forums gusts but still not all.
- members with X posts can see all forums.
I hope you do understand what do I mean,
thanks.
Some of what you are asking can be achieved with permissions. See the doc site (http://docs.simplemachines.org) for more information.
The rest can be achieved with mods.
Mod Requests (http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?board=79.0)
check this:
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=158472.0