[alex]

i dont think this is the way to go as the main posters on this site will get gold memberships...... which will be most of the active people on the site anyway.... which is no good considering we get alot of guest for the reason that they like the site and read the forums... and if most good topics go to the vip room then we will lose guests and potential memberswe should not be focusing on excluding guesst from certain area of the site and restricting access to new member as this is no way to keep them coming back and the site growing as well

you need to focus on new ways of accpting member such as when you apply for membership it is not just given the mods or preferably admins have to accept them... then they become a member (there are lots of diffrent ways this can be done too just dont excluding lots of people for one dic-k head that caused some troble for a few days)