Sort of! I empathize with folk who want to participate but don't have access.
The Pros wanted that. The idea, I believe, is that opinions expressed are based on living in the real world of meeting high professional standards for quality, delivery, skills, experience with similar work many times over and references etc. Without having a filter, anyone can give opinions and generally that's not helpful for pros in a bind for business advice. How does that create a hardship?
I do not want, this month or so, anyway, to address such issues although we can collect opinions. We are in progress to studying and upgrading to vBulletin 4.0 and seeing what new features we can bring to OPF. That and my photography takes all my time. There are no spare resources to deal with any changes in Pro structure, although as I pointed out, we are good listeners.
Most questions can be accommodated anyway in some other place and Layback Café always works.
I hope you understand and that no one is miffed about this limited restriction to OPF at this stage.
Thanks for understanding,
Asher