Hehee... kinda like DBpro Survivor Forum - hehee
"every week we pick 6 lucki DBpro'rs to join the ranks of the DB Elité"
hehee
however that said, what i'm more thniking of is a forum where alot of us who are developing alot more serious software, and utilities get access to - and by all means give everyone veiwing previlages, but the point is to stop the spamming and stupidly newbish questions which can be kept to the main format.
Programming discussions in deeper detail suchas DLLs (which Lee & Mike could actually join in more on) and possible sharing of development issues that newbies, and infact alot of older users who are very much still unknowlageable about.
Could even have a small section for tutorials which people click on to veiw, but can't answer to. Because it can be frustrating making something which is as simple as the help file just to have someone say "what does 'Set Normilisation On' do?"
this would be a perfectly valid question normally, if it wasn't answered in the help!
But also it could be a forum specifically for DEVELOPMENT rather than the idle chitchat that most of the posts end up with.
As these forums are being developed, rather than a template that has generic features - it can actually be given features that specify how we use the forum.
So for each post within the Development Forum, we can have a help reply or bugs reply ... the requirement of the help would be you need to have atleast 1 code section. And the bugs for comments.
Then you can have like a Roll-Out contained page for each one and read whichever you want.
perhaps give the users the option within that forum to specify an FTP space which we can use for attachments, so DBpro doesn't actually have the space for us - but we can upload within the posts
i dunno... but the different post types, like standard, software (with feature to only allow certain member types, like visitor, registered, moderators, other DBDF members veiw), Tutorials with rollout comments, Product Mini-Sites kinda like small frame for Flash sites for products you release.
would be great for stuff like that, but only to the users which are likely to make use of it.
Suchas Kevin (UW Designs), Dead Glory (DigAw), etc...
and you'll have to make sure that DB-Mail has block features for spammers and newbies who just don't quit.
Anata aru kowagaru no watashi! 
