well, I think I am now 'running against a kind of a wall' here.

* I hope that FlyerTalk stays as easy to start posting for newbies as it is (and was successfull until now)
* I have only little to none anxiety to use my credit cards where- and whenever I want to use it
* so far I never did use credit-cards to receive any kind of access to an Internet-board/- homepage /-service
* I don't think that it matters much for the FlyerTalk decision-maiking about access-policy, if my reluctant 'behaviour' (that I probably share with some/many? others) to not give away my credit-card for 'just' accessing (or start posting on) a FrequentFlier-board, makes really logic sense or not
* the probabilty that many first-timers will not join, if such a hurdle is been built in, might be of more importance for (future growth of) FlyerTalk.