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Wait, what? Where do you guys get this SEO knowledge from? No-one will report your links, and you won't get banned. All that will happen is SE's may not be able to crawl the content and you won't rank for specific keywords.

Wow, this thread grew fast, thanks for all your opinions, i think ill just leave it the default way where all guests can see everything, more traffic, and eventually with ads more revenue. Thanks to everyone.

Personally, I let guests view all but staff & premium forums. However, if you want to just give them a taste, then let them decide if they want to join that's fine. But, the more content they can see (to experience it) the more likely they'll join.

Simple rule:
If you got Kick-A$$ contents, do whatever you want(even paid membership)

Else, NO WAY!!!