You can find a few scripts at www.hotscripts.com or you could work with a core package like vbulletin (www.vbulletin.com) and add/modify it to suit your exact needs.

vBulletin (http://www.vbulletin.com) is a professional grade forum program as explained on their website (see http://www.vbulletin.com/features.php). vBulletin powers many of the largest forums...

If you allow bickering and fighting you will soon find that that's all you have. People who do not wish to engage in that sort of activity are generally driven away, decreasing community size and...

1. Jelsoft has thousands of customers -- it's more likely that an open source project would close or cease development (lead developer has a kid, they get sick of supporting the program, etc...)....

As Dani said, allowing spam is a huge no-no. Allowing self promotion in a limited way is the way forums work and should not be limited because a site may or may not compete with yours. If someone...

nathanaus - You're right, there is a big differance betweeen a for profit business that happens to be a website and a fan site or not-for-profit site. If you aren't making money you probably don't...

In vbulletin changing emails is very simple, just pull up the phrase manager and change the drop down to "Email Body", this will pull up all of the email phrases. The main ones to change are...

In order to do a backwards "downgrade" (even if there are more features, going back is still a downgrade) requires you to compare the database structure. Find the fields that 2.0.11 has and compare...

In our 4 years ScubaBoard has rarely done any direct advertising (ppcs, banners, magazine ads), however, we do a lot of indirect promotion using stickers, tshirts, banners at events and anything else...

Although my forums have mostly been built up by search engine listings and word of mouth I still believe paid promotion is an important piece of the puzzel, espcially for a new forum in the current...