Forum Search Functions In General

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Setec Astronomy

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Why is it that so many forums block the search function to non-members? I was looking at a make-specific vehicle forum with 65,000 threads, and couldn't do a search because I wasn't a member. What sense does that make? So I become a member, do a search, don't find what I want, and never come back? Do forum administrators like this because it pumps up the membership numbers and that helps them with advertising? I don't get it.
 
I will never understand this either...



One of the big car audio forums got rid of search capabilities all together for like 6 months to "save bandwidth"...what good is a forum without a search function??? Needless to say, they put the function back because the traffic decreased greatly on the site.
 
Well, think of it this way too. The more members that are on these forums the more money a forum owner might get from sponsors. If a potential sponsor goes on a forum and sees 300 members as opposed to 65,000 they would just walk away.
 
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