the forum should
* only people ( and if it can be done with permits, web crawlers bing and google, as I think that is main reason they allow guests to be able to go around, if they can't do that than we are forced to live with not signed in able to go around or sacrifice ability of web crawlers to go around whole forum except the mods section as they must have one, every Forum I had been administrator or mod have special sections for them only ) who sign in can see all the forums ( or most of them, except mod section )
* Not signed in can read the Official hero zero news portion including a new "intro section" only
* encourage new signees to post at intro section to do the first post ( I dislike when new signees have to wait for a mod to approve their first post ant forum contests )
about game contests
they need to make sure to be more specific about rules, and a day or 2 before contest, allow members to ask questions and make sure they understand how each particular game is going to be, and as I said, if they encourage new signees to go to a "new intro thread" to make first post ( maybe even make it so that members with 1 posts are only ones able to read all forums, ones with no posts can read only "official hero zero news" and "hero zero" sections .................. that means they can't read forum contest and daily grind sections )