12-16-2014, 02:33 AM
There are two ways to gain access to the new private board, one is you need to have posted 50 fishing reports. As an example, if you fish once a week and post a report after every trip, you would have posted 52 fishing reports in a year.
It takes a lot of time to count all the fishing reports that members have posted, so the second way to gain access is to have 5 years as a member on BFT and 2000 or more total post. We figure that any member that has been on BFT for that long and has that many total post, has shared a lot of helpful info with other BFT members.
The whole purpose of this new board is to get our older members posting again and to encourage newer members to post more. A lot of you reading this are lurkers and so those people will never be able to read the post on the new board unless they join and start posting reports. I'm sure some of you have noticed the huge number of views on post that have few replies, we are talking several thousand views, well that alone is a good reason for a private board. If we don't have some rules and guidelines for a private board like this, anyone could have access, so that is why we set the minimum of 50 fishing reports posted for members seeking access.
The new board is not stopping members from posting reports on the Main Utah board or helping members with helpful fishing info but for those spots that can't take the pressure, from so many people the view every thread, it will help a lot.
Hope this helps.
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It takes a lot of time to count all the fishing reports that members have posted, so the second way to gain access is to have 5 years as a member on BFT and 2000 or more total post. We figure that any member that has been on BFT for that long and has that many total post, has shared a lot of helpful info with other BFT members.
The whole purpose of this new board is to get our older members posting again and to encourage newer members to post more. A lot of you reading this are lurkers and so those people will never be able to read the post on the new board unless they join and start posting reports. I'm sure some of you have noticed the huge number of views on post that have few replies, we are talking several thousand views, well that alone is a good reason for a private board. If we don't have some rules and guidelines for a private board like this, anyone could have access, so that is why we set the minimum of 50 fishing reports posted for members seeking access.
The new board is not stopping members from posting reports on the Main Utah board or helping members with helpful fishing info but for those spots that can't take the pressure, from so many people the view every thread, it will help a lot.
Hope this helps.
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