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Originally Posted by Kantomaster1111

To gain users and traffic, of course.

It will do the opposite. Signups are known as a "barrier to entry" for a reason. Unless the user knows exactly what it is and wants entry, the curious will probably just pass it by. Google searchers will never find out about it because the site can't be indexed. Most of the circumstances where content is hidden is because the site wants you to pay for it, the content doesn't make much sense without signing up (like a social network) or because the site wants your data to use for mining or sales purposes. I don't see any of that here. There isn't even any hook or teaser content. Even porn sites do that.

The owner of the site is free to have any content model he wishes, but it just strikes me as odd and somewhat self-defeating.