I have to say I'm very impressed with this site and how it is set up, especially when posting new topics. I love the anti-spam measures you all have taken and the requirements for quality posts before people are allowed to have signatures and links in their posts. I run my own 40,000+ member site using vBulletin so I know what a headache spam can be. Do you guys have in-house programmers or did you use mods from vbulletin.org and such? Keep up the great work. This will fast be one of my favorite places to visit and write.
The CAPTCHA field above the posting field. Hey, wait... it's not there anymore. Maybe because I have +10 posts?
Shawn if you write a ebook on how to run a successful forum then it will be the best seller of the year.
I'll write it for free right here... Give users something unique that they can't get anywhere else. That's it. See this post. That will be $50 please.
My guess is i see alot of usergroups, like you get promoted after you reach a certain amount of posts. Nice work though, i like it too.