I understand wanting to prevent freeloaders, but it seems to me that most users initially will be freeloaders. They'll want to see that they are getting consis

I understand wanting to prevent freeloaders, but it seems to me that most users initially will be freeloaders. They'll want to see that they are getting consistently good info from your site before they start contributing (even so much as contributing their e-mail address or downloading the FFE. And by "most" I mean this is me and I'm assuming I'm relatively normal). Especially when you're competing against every other site full of error messages that shows up in their search results.