i think they should be able to view all forums, things like that turn people off of forums. for example on shoforum they enacted a policy that you have to have a paid email account to register so you can’t use yahoo or anything like that to register on that forum now. imo that will cost them members.
and like ws said before i don’t see new commers as a problem unless they are police and are trying to exploit the forums so 2 years later they can think they are in the know.