My Modern Met - Public or Private?

We'd love to hear your input on whether you think we should keep this site private (membership by invitation only) or if we should open the main page up to public viewing.

The issue is that once we open up the site to the public, anyone can then sign up.

Do you like of the privacy of the community or do you think it would be better, and that your friends would be more apt to sign up, if this was public?

Thanks, everyone.

Tags: private, public

▶ Reply to This

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by Kara on June 6, 2008 at 2:54pm

Private. I think that keeps the content integrity higher. If you have every retard able to sign up, you'd get questions in the forums like: What do you think of Brown starbucks cups? and they'll get bored at work and play with Photo Booth and put the dumb pictures on their page.

Really, you don't need to let the riff raff in.

But seriously, I like private better.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by rp {|} // .MrPresident___++ on June 6, 2008 at 3:55pm

I agree...I have hundreds of friends and family that I could spam up with invites, but i chose to select only those 3 or 4 people that I thought might have something constructive to bring to the site. I rather like this site better than facebook & myspace. Its so much more sophisticated...Good job Alice..

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by alice on June 7, 2008 at 10:28am

thanks for the props. :)

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by sAm on June 7, 2008 at 1:07am

HAHA! Brown starbucks cups...WHO WOULD ASK SUCH A QUESTION!!! Just kidding, too funny. good stuff.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by Duc on June 6, 2008 at 4:29pm

Private in the short term and maybe revisit making it public later down the road when you iron out everything. I do like the idea of the site being by invitation only. Keeps the content in check because it keeps out the trolls.

If someone by chance invites someone that is a bit of annoyance, you should strip the inviter of invite privileges. And then tar and feather him/her. And then take away their Constitutional rights. And then you make them go on Shot of Love with Tila Tequila.

Also, keeping it private makes it less embarrassing for me if I "accidentally" upload webcam footage of me playing World of Warcraft dressed like my character, Palomedes, a Level 60 Paladin equipped with the finest armor you can find on the Elune server.

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by sAm on June 7, 2008 at 1:08am

Damn that picture is OFF THE HOOK!!! Duc, who knew you were such a warrior!

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by rp {|} // .MrPresident___++ on June 6, 2008 at 6:17pm

another idea is to have separate areas, an invite only area and a public area....the public area could have ads and stuff so you can make some $$$ but keep the invite only area clean. The free-newbies would be selected based on their rating...to join the more exclusive area...set a number of people that can be let into the private area..like 5 per month or something. The site would then become like a night club and you can be bouncer...

i know it sounds a little out there

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by sAm on June 7, 2008 at 1:10am

hmmm thats actually a really good idea. That way some of our content can be displayed to the world, but still keep control of who the members are and who gets to post. hmmmmm

▶ Reply

Permalink Reply by alice on June 7, 2008 at 9:25am

Thanks for everyone's opinion on this. Was struggling back on forth on this one, so great to get some different perspectives. Will keep the site private, for now. I, too, like where it's going...but there is a lot of work ahead.

You guys here - Rolando, Tony, Kara, Sam, Duc - are all phenomenal contributors. Everyone's been coming up to me lately to say how much they all enjoy reading your commentaries. Thanks for contributing, but more importantly, thanks for believing in this site! :)