is there any benefit in opening member profiles?

Hello,

I was wondering if there were any benefit in allowing guest to view member profiles?

Opinion varies. I prefer blocking them from guests and search engines in order to get higher value content only available to search engines.

i leave them open.

its useful for googling usernames to see where else people post, etc

Here are our 1 month landing page stats for member profile pages for perspective:

11,730 visits entered the site through 2,419 URLs containing "/members/"

I like them private for member privacy... Our membership base is 99% female, ages from 12 upwards......