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Anyone interested in seeing a list of real features should check out:

http://www.simplemachines.org/about/featu
res.php

Simple machine forums is also available FREE to anyone wishing to download/upload onto their on site to create a discussion board. It is very powerful and the Admin controls are excellent. You can set up a huge array of rules/feature to help manage your board (many not even listed because they are so basic to discussion boards - though not here).

you can see it in action here:

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/i
ndex.php

If your website is hosted with godaddy (and other like hostinginsomniac.com), you can install simplemachnies thought your admin control panel - it is one of the free software adds offered.

On the subject of editing (and my earlier comments regarding it) . . .

I now participate in another forum that allows editing for fifteen minutes after a post appears. That works really well for a couple of reasons. First, you can clean-up the typos and things that didn't come out quite like expected. Second, it cuts down on some of the trivial back-and-forth "sniping" that people can get into sometimes -- there aren't so many knee-jerk reactions reflected in lengthy threads because people have the ability to change or "take back" what they posted for a bit.

I no longer participate in a community that allows a member to edit his/her posts forever because (a) it became impossible to follow the logic in evolving threads, and (b) people tended to edit frequently just to serve their own purposes. Imagine what this forum would look like if I went back into all 2,000+ of my old posts (some of which draw a lot of search traffic) and put an ad for my latest book or a link to this week's special offer -- and if everyone else did that too. It becomes an advertising forum, and totally useless as a support or learning community -- and I'm not in favor of that happening to the SBOC.

So being able to edit for fifteen minutes after a post is made is something I really, really like. Being able to edit it forever is dysfunctional in my view.

I would like for my posts not to disappear when they are appropriate.