I was reading through this and want to note, that many of the features you are discussing have already been incorporated into TEISU, we have devised an initial standard policy as well, and process for voting and holding meetings on community and TW related matters; I don't know if anybody read the highlighted features I posted on before but I figure I would include them here as an FYI... being that it seems as usual there are about three separate groups of people working over each other meanwhile attempting to accomplish nearly the same end result.
Predominate features onboard TEISU to note (in no specific order over 227 MOD’s have been applied to our default BBTech Theme!):
Dynamic styling updated throughout the forums
Posting Icons available
Advanced Voting Poll features has been incorporated
Save Posts as Draft feature has been incorporated, (can be edited through the main index header, right hand side view links)
Advanced Survey Creation features have been incorporated
Dedicated TWA downloads page, (at this time only Admin can include new files)
Posting File Attachments feature has been incorporated, (permits uploading and downloading files within posts and in PM’s)
XML customizable Newsfeeds available to all Members
Google Music and Documentary Video Xport pages available, (at this time only Admin can update the play lists)
*
Music page contains a growing selection of songs and live
concerts/programs, the Documentary page contains a large and growing
selection of documentaries,
spoofs, movies, etc; all are embedded from Google Video, You Tube, and similar related sites.
** Still some cleaning up left to do, possibly duplicate entries under altered names, missing parts to documentaries, etc.
Very customizable forums via Member Profile
Advanced anti-spamming and BOT prevention
Advanced cursing filters installed throughout the forums, (except the “Reality Check!” Category)
Enhance smack talk forums known as “Reality Check!” (17 or older permitted only, as all curse filters have been turned off!)
Designated Troll punishment feature has been incorporated in lieu of banning unruly Members
Admin/Mod accountability tracking logs (Code Crush and Action Logs)
User
Post/Topic move preference alerts available, (Admin/Mod move your
Topic/Post elsewhere, you will be automatically advised via Email if
enabled)
Large selection of smilies and themes available,
(additional themes to be modified in the near future, BBTech theme is
currently GTG) Click to View Smilies Selection,
Ability to import Post Count and Registration Date from EIS, (at Member’s request)
* Please view the policy regarding this: Click to view Importing of Post Counts & Reg Dates Policy
Administrative Quizzing feature for all Members to participate in, (currently only Admin are able to create Quizzes)
Dynamic linking within the main index page to many useful sites and utilities
(These
currently include, categorized Stardock preset game search sessions,
Direct Porting to the TradeWars Academy, a complete listing of related
links has been organized (based from the Document §tinger), a META Tag
Creator, and a Browser *yzer Utility)
2 second flood interval set
for posting and searching, (though there is a 5 second preview loop-out
that must be exceeded to make a new post, this is a anti-BOT feature)
Member Post Reporting feature with Advanced Admin Console
Advanced Member Birthday Monitor
Advanced Member and Forum stats
A combined Member Welcome Panel that includes a TEISU Announcements and News updates section
TEISU has a complete set of Polices and Standards have been created for TEISU Staff and Members
* Please view Policies and Standards for TEISU members and Staff Representatives:
http://teisu.org/viewtopic.php?p=36Member FTP privileges
* Please view TEISU Member FTP Accessing Guidelines:
http://teisu.org/viewtopic.php?p=209Several
additional features included throughout the forums such as clicking on
links and hovering over links through the view topic areas, (hovering
over the title, clicking on the reply number, or clicking on the
left-side folder icon, clicking on Members Name and Post Count, etc.)
Members
Online/Offline status, last visit date, post average, topics created,
word average/total words typed, posts per month, post linking within
profiles, etc.
Several phpBB bug fixes performed
Online/Offline status links for AOL, MSN, Yahoo, and Skype
There
is a Members Guestbook available in each Members profile (25 minimum
post count to deviate BOTS and Trolls from Posting in them)
Donations Link available, we have also designed a display template for those that need one
Advanced Emailing and Private Messing features
Printer Friendly Post feature
Advanced BBCode features, which include:
100 characters available for use in making up your topic/reply titles
Auto guiding URL and Image pop-ups
Usable color tags within code tags, (in other words you can color code your code!)
Maintain spacing within posts
Many additional special features for coders and developers have been installed, (with even more to come!)
Numerous additional Fonts and font sizes have been added
Full image and text alignment features
Hidden text feature, (also known as a spoiler)
Quick color bar, with hex coded coloring; color name labels still available
Buttons
added for: strike-through, tab, horizontal lines (hr), tables, line
breaks, extra spacing, footnotes, subscript, superscript, /me, user,
email, scrolling marquee, anchoring tags, Wikipedia, Google, and Yahoo
search tags, referencing tags for a online dictionary, thesaurus, and
translator, etc.
Post embedding supported for flash (.SWF File),
flow (.FLV File), mp3 (via EMFF for MPEG Files), Bolt, Google Video,
YouTube, Quicktime, and Windows Media’s
* Please view The TEISU BBCode Usage Guide for further instructions and clarification:
http://teisu.org/viewtopic.php?p=210**
Please also note that a few tags are still being worked on such as
additional features/functions for the scroll tag, a few issues with
embedded windows media (wmp tags).